“[Asia] has spent a lifetime in film since she was 9 years old,” BourdaintoldPEOPLE in an2017 interview. “She comes from generations of filmmakers on both sides of the family. She’s a really accomplished director and writer along with being a longtime actress and a real sponge for culture, music, literature. So she’s enormously helpful and inspiring.”
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By the time Argento turned 21, she’d won the Italian equivalent of two Oscars and broke big in the U.S. with 2002’sxXx, also starring Vin Diesel. The mother of two children with her ex-husband Michele Civetta continued to work steadily in both markets, but it was a 1997 incident that has made news most recently.
Argento referred to that evening as a “nightmare” and even wrote a movie about the incident. “After my rape, I started developing PTSD,” she toldRolling Stoneof her 2000 dramaScarlet Diva. “I couldn’t leave the house, and that’s why I had to start writing.”
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“I am proud and honored to know you,” hetweetedafter the article was published. “You just did the hardest thing in the world.”
“I’m afraid to leave my apartment,” she continued toRolling Stone. “I am still afraid. I am more afraid now that I know everything that they had on me Rose [McGowan], Rosanna [Arquette], Annabella [Sciorra], all the women he had hurt. He knew who they were. But most importantly, now we know who they are.”
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Nonetheless, Argento pushed forward with Bourdain’s support. She spoke last month at the 2018 Cannes Film Festival — the same place where she first encountered Weinstein on that night in 1997 — and called out her alleged abuser. “This festival was his hunting ground,” shetold the audienceat the festival’s closing ceremony on May 19. “Even tonight, sitting among you, there are those who still have to be held accountable for their conduct against women.”
Bourdain praised her speech, tellingIndieWire, “It was absolutely fearless to walk right into the lion’s den and say what she said, the way she said it. It was an incredibly powerful moment, I thought. I am honored to know someone who has the strength and fearlessness to do something like that.”
While it’s not confirmed whether they were still together when Bourdain was found dead at 61 at the Le Chambard hotel in France — Argento wasseen with another manjust three days prior — she’d liked his penultimate Instagram post on Tuesday and posted anominous, since-deleted Instagram storyon Thursday wearing a t-shirt that said, “F— EVERYONE.”
“Anthony gave all of himself in everything that he did,” shewrotein a statement posted to social media on Friday. “His brilliant, fearless spirit touched and inspired so many, and his generosity knew no bounds. He was my love, my rock, my protector. I am beyond devastated. My thoughts are with his family. I would ask that you respect their privacy and mine.”
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source: people.com
