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Clear+Vivid with Alan Alda

Isabella Rossellini on Communicating the Wonder of Nature

Clear+Vivid with Alan Alda

Bobi NYC

Comedy, Society & Culture, Science

4.73.8K Ratings

🗓️ 18 September 2018

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

Isabella Rossellini is a legendary actress, iconic model, filmmaker, writer, and now - if that's not enough - she's working on her master's degree in Animal Behavior. In this wildly fun conversation, Alan Alda talks with Isabella about how how animals communicate with one another and with us. And how Isabella communicates with us about the sometimes bizarre sex lives of animals — in her popular video series called "Green Porno." Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/clearandvivid

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0:00.0

I'm Alan Olga and this is Clear and Vivid. Conversations about connecting and communicating.

0:16.8

People always assume that animals are made like we do a male and a female but that's not

0:20.9

the case. So I wanted to tell that story and I thought you could always start with just

0:25.7

simply a close up of me saying if I were a brain man this is how I would make love and I would

0:32.2

change myself in costume because of course I have a long experience as a model and so costume

0:39.5

and fashion is my background so I could transform myself into that animal and show how they made.

0:50.2

You probably know Isabella Rosalini from her extremely successful acting and modeling

0:55.4

career but you may not know her as one of the most unusual communicators about the sex

1:01.0

lives of insects and other animals that you'll ever come across. Actually maybe the only one you'll

1:07.0

ever come across. Isabella has fascinated people around the globe with a series of videos on YouTube

1:14.1

called Green Porno. It's not only attention grabbing it's also funny and it comes from a place of

1:21.2

curiosity. Deep in Isabella's heart. It's really interesting that you are very much

1:28.3

as I am in the business of trying to help science be available to all of us and I think I

1:36.2

read some place that you said you want to share what you experience as you learn more about science.

1:45.2

Exactly. I think my passion and curiosity for animal behavior was so great that I could

1:53.9

overcome the difficulties of reading scientific papers about them. But as I went back to university

2:01.4

to take my master degree I started to make films about them and what I've learned,

2:05.5

comical films about them and the biggest obstacle that I had I have to say was to take the

2:11.8

scientific papers and translate them into a language that is accessible to everyone.

2:20.1

It's interesting. It's not just the language that I got out of it. For instance,

2:24.4

Green Porno, that series of films about basically about the reproduction among other animals.

2:33.4

And especially ones where one mate devours the other.

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