{"id":576660,"date":"2026-08-06T15:36:13","date_gmt":"2026-08-06T15:36:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/576660\/"},"modified":"2026-08-06T15:36:13","modified_gmt":"2026-08-06T15:36:13","slug":"isabella-rossellini-explains-why-she-lives-in-us-despite-bad-politics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/576660\/","title":{"rendered":"Isabella Rossellini Explains Why She Lives in US Despite Bad Politics"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tOn Wednesday evening, Italian-American actress, model and filmmaker\u00a0Isabella Rossellini<\/a>\u00a0helped kick off the\u00a079th edition<\/a>\u00a0of the\u00a0Locarno Film Festival<\/a> with star power, receiving the Swiss fest\u2019s Excellence Award<\/a>. On Thursday, the icon discussed her career and other insights during a public conversation as part of the festival program.<\/p>\n

In between anecdotes about her collaborations with famous directors and actors, things turned political for a moment when an audience member asked her about life in the U.S. and whether she ever considers moving for political reasons. The translation of the question and her response didn\u2019t include mentions of U.S. President Donald Trump, but the query was widely understood as a reference to some creatives\u2019 discussions of a potential move abroad due to Trump.<\/p>\n

\u201cAmerica is a continent,\u201d Rossellini started off her response as the question had mentioned \u201cAmerica\u201d rather than the U.S., querying the audience member: \u201cWhy do you live in Europe if there is a country you don\u2019t like?\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tBut she then seemed to focus on U.S. politics, saying: \u201cThe political situation is very bad, very hard. We\u2019re thinking about going back. But I have a farm. I have sheep. I have hens. I have land.\u201d That was a reference to her primary home, Mama Farm, a big organic farm that she founded in 2013 on Long Island. \u201cSo, should we abandon everything?\u201d Rossellini continued. \u201cWe are going to stay, so far, and I hope that things will get better.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tRossellini on Thursday also received a broad question about changes and disruptions affecting the entertainment industry. Streaming, AI and other technologies bring \u201ca lot of opportunities but also a crisis,\u201d the icon offered. \u201cFilm festivals are crowded, but then local movie cinemas are empty.\u201d Her comments about local cinemas come at a time, though, when the industry is breathing a sigh of relief, with 2026 currently on track to be the biggest domestic box office year<\/a> since the COVID pandemic.<\/p>\n

\n\tBut she concluded on an upbeat note, saying: \u201cI\u2019m optimistic. Creating art has always been difficult\u2026 And there are beautiful films being made with iPhones only.\u201d<\/p>\n

How does Rossellini feel about acting in series? \u201cI don\u2019t like TV shows because they are so long,\u201d she said, explaining she meant simply the amount of time they require, not any creative aspects. \u201cI just want to be a guest star because I don\u2019t want to stay away from home for eight months,\u201d Rossellini shared. \u201cThat\u2019s why I stopped doing theater.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tIn being honored on Locarno\u2019s Piazza Grande on Wednesday evening, Rossellini recalled how her famous father Paolo and brother Renzo had previously received awards at Locarno, sharing: \u201cTo be on par with my father and my brother fills me with great emotion.\u201d <\/p>\n

\n\tHer Thursday conversation was moderated by\u00a0Olivier P\u00e8re, the former artistic director of the\u00a0Locarno festival\u00a0and now executive director of ARTE France Cin\u00e9ma and head of its cinema unit since 2012.\u00a0He is also part of the jury for the\u00a0international\u00a0competition<\/a> of Locarno79.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"On Wednesday evening, Italian-American actress, model and filmmaker\u00a0Isabella Rossellini\u00a0helped kick off the\u00a079th edition\u00a0of the\u00a0Locarno Film Festival with star…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":576661,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[458,146,85,399,145594,46,245806,228210],"class_list":["post-576660","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-celebrities","tag-entertainment","tag-il","tag-international","tag-isabella-rossellini","tag-israel","tag-locarno-2026","tag-locarno-film-festival"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/576660","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=576660"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/576660\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/576661"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=576660"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=576660"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=576660"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}