Where you’ve seen her: Fulfilling the fantasies of frustrated postal workers worldwide in Il Postino and joining the Bond-girl pantheon in The World Is Not Enough. Other English-language credits include A Brooklyn State of Mind and Picking Up the Pieces.
Bawdy work: “I've met many prostitutes, and I think it's wrong to judge them. I'll tell you what I think is worse: It's all the people in the movie business who tell you they are so pure, yet they are fucking this guy and that guy. At least the prostitute is honest about what she is.”
Southern comfort: “For [the Italian film world], I was tettona and terrona (a big-breasted southern peasant).”
Bare with her: “I don't think [nudity] is absolutely necessary for a romantic scene.”
