Jennifer Connelly: "As a child I felt a totally sexualized girl"

Jennifer Connelly (New York, 1970) was only 10 years old when she went to her first casting.His childhood and adolescence passed on sets.Upon arriving at twenty, he decidedWith 50 years, a myth.With that status participates in autumn in Top Gun: Maverick, the second part of the legendary film that in this installment directs what was and is again its protagonist, Tom Cruise.Connelly receives us one day after a photo shoot exclusively for s fashion through a zoom call.Sitting in a cozy blue room of her New York home, where she lives with her husband, actor Paul Bettany and her three children, there is not a single difference between the person who looks on the other side of the camera and the one you contemplate in thisInterview: Time has been kind to the actress in every way, especially in the sentimental.She is happy with her family, which she defines as her main source of stability, and with her husband, with whom, she says, never competes."It is logistically a challenge because we travel together with children to shoot in different places, but it is a matter of planning and is actually great".Connelly has posed for us as ambassador of Louis Vuitton and personal friend of its artistic director, Nicolas Ghesquière.We start talking, of course, fashionable.

Connelly, with wool and silk sleeves.Photo: Paola Kudacki / Styling: Max Ortega

Who would say that he instilled his good taste?

My mother had an antique store when I was a girl and many times I went with her auctions, bargain shops, antiques fairs.My father also worked in the textile and designed and made pants.Many people from my family are related to the costume industry and grew surrounded by people who had a creative vein and design knowledge.

He started working as a very young actress.Many young actors have addiction problems.However, you have managed to be very centered all your life.How did you do it?

One can feel terribly exposed in the film industry, so I understand those who were young looking for a place that made them feel safe or at least counteract that feeling of exposure.Each one we find security in a different place: in the family, in faith ... or in drugs.In my case, my youth refuge were the studies.They were my counterpoint.

So Yale saved his life ...

Let's say that when I was 20, I could have been much more volatile and that stabilized me.

Did their parents had something to do with their stability?What did they do that the parents of other children actors did?

The relationship with my parents was changing as I acquired their own personality.My father was not very involved in my work, while my mother was the one who instigated my career, because in no case was mine initiative.It was she who took me to auditions and accompanied me to shoot until I was 18 years old and I could become independent.

Woolless jacket with silk scarf.Photo: Paola Kudacki / Styling: Max Ortega

If I could start over, would you be an actress and start at such an early age?

Well, let's say it like this: in none of the ways I would like my children to be actors.My experience was ... well ... I have had an exciting life, I love my work, I think it is very interesting, I am grateful and I am happy where I am now, but it was some challenges for my development.

Your eldest son is an engineer.What is it like to have someone at home that is not related to the creative world?

It is amazing because it is incredibly creative, although in a different way.He is a great writer, has an artistic vein that has led to technology.I am very impressed what it does, it halls me so much that you know how things work, I have a blockade with technology and for him it is so simple ...

The median, musician.What kind of music do you play?

His main instrument is the guitar, he started studying classic guitar.He also touches the piano and violin and now he likes the drums and also sings, and in recent years the classical composition has become his passion, so he will go to a school to deepen that knowledge.Wants to make music for soundtracks.

Suppose what happens what he says would not like to happen and his daughter suddenly tells him that he wants to be an actress.What advice would you give?

I would tell him to find herself before doing anything, because it is very dysfunctional to work being still a girl.I have many reservations about it, based on my own experience, although surely there are people who have had them very different.

Jacket with removable sleeves of skin and feathers, and pants made of technical fabric.Photo: Paola Kudacki / Styling: Max Ortega

Has worked with Cruise for the first time.What differences did you find between the person who imagined and the one you have known?

I must say that it is a true prodigy.Being at the level that he is for so many years is an extraordinary phenomenon and when I met him I understood many things.The energy that puts everything, how focused and disciplined it is, how it commits.Never give anything for granted.Every moment for him is an opportunity, he does not sleep in the laurels, he works for all all the time, nothing escapes him, he gives himself to one hundred percent.I was very impressed.

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So you understand why Tom Cruise is Tom Cruise when you meet Tom Cruise.

Yes, exactly [laughs].

He starred very young with David Bowie inside the labyrinth, a cult film directed by Jim Henson, the creator of the Muppets and Sesame neighborhood.I suppose that was like entering somehow in the bambalins of childhood.I say it because he often comments on being a girl's actress and there was very close to genuine childhood ...

Well, I say that because you ask me about it.I received a lot of pressure because it is a moment of the life in which you have to be free, and everyone is telling you acts like this, I look, and that is something that empties you.Also a lot of pressure came from myself, which demanded a lot and was not a rebel.Now things are changing, but then there were very tense dynamics.Said this, I also lived extraordinary experiences.For example, my first job was with Sergio Leone in Once Upon to Time in America [once in America] and was magical.He was a genius, a Renaissance man capable of directing in those spectacular sets.

What memory of Bowie treasures with special affection?

The way he joked.Disarmed people only with their ability to make them laugh.He made everyone feel comfortable, climbed to the Dolly camera [a camera mounted on a platform, normally on rails, to perform fluid movements] and faces me from there from there.It was incredibly sweet and attentive.

Do you keep any fetish from the movie?

All I have is a ring, a Victorian age that has diamonds and rubies, who bought me all the team members on a neckline.

Padded cotton jacket and feather stuffed, cotton oversize padded coat and pillow high boots.Photo: Paola Kudacki / Styling: Max Ortega

In some moments of his career he has had unequal criticism or has not made a box office.Did you think of throwing the towel?

Maybe when I was 20, I started asking me if I really wanted to do what I was doing.They had forced me in that direction and I did not feel the owner of my life or that the movies I was making reflected my real sensitivity.Now that my children are getting older, I begin to think more about doing projects in which I have complete control, write and direct them.

Want the Oscar changed in some way?

It's hard to say.Changed the way they perceived me, but that is absolutely ephemeral.I do not change my way of thinking about myself.I have not been in a straight line.With projects that did not make a box I have felt great and with projects that have been well received from the public, I did not like my performance.But it's not that I have always gone to better and every time I have been closer to where I want to be.

The #MeToo movement has forced us to think about things that we had never thought about before.Did you feel like a sexual object when I was a child?

Absolutely.And this is what I was referring to when I said that there was in my childhood some circumstances that were tense because yes, I felt absolutely reossified and sexualized.

The way they treated their characters the directors with whom they did their first jobs, maybe it contributed to that feeling?

In the movie I made with Darío Argento I had a great time.It was filmed in Rome and I remember my parents telling me "Look, they have offered you this movie, it is in Rome, but it is of terror, very hard [a murderer persecutes her to dismembered it], we have rejected it".And I said: "I want to do it!".And the reason I wanted to do it is that I wanted to eat pasta![laughs].I would not say that it had to do.In fact, in Once Upon to Time in America, for the scene in which they spared me undressing me used a double body because at 11 I did not do naked.But I absolutely confirm that as a child, in general, I lived situations in which I felt very uncomfortable.

Has the #MeToo helped to think about it again?

There are sessions of my childhood that influenced a lot on how I saw my own body and that was something that I wanted to shake off when I got at 20.That is why the university became so important to me, because there only mattered what it was inside.That was my rebellion.I don't have to worry about my external appearance, this is a place where you just think what I think.And that was a lot before #Metoo.

He has been many times on lists that now seem a bit incredible of "more beautiful women in the world".Is being considered the most beautiful woman in the world made her be afraid to age?

The first: if I answer this question I would mean that I accept that I am the most beautiful woman in the world [laughs].But I would say that as someone who is constantly being observed, because the truth is that no.I turned 50 last year and I loved it.I love thinking about the next episodes of my life.

Makeup: Genevieve Herr (Sally Harlor).Hairdressing: Renato Campoa (The Wall Group).Manicure: Eri Handa (Home Agency).Local Production: NM Productions.Set design: Jacob Burstein (MHS Artists).Digital Technician: Evgeny Popov.Sastre: Yao Ayeh.Photography attendees: Kyrre Kristoffersen and CT Smith.Styling Assistant: Martin Cohn.Photo: Paola Kudacki / Styling: Max Ortega