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It's Bullseye. I'm Jesse Thorne. Next up on the show is the great Isabella Rosalini. She's being

interviewed by our pal correspondent and Isabella Rossellini superfan, Louis Vertel.

Isabella Rosalini was born into European film royalty. She's the daughter of the director

Roberto Rossellini and the actor Ingrid Bergman. She's probably best known as an actor. She's had daughter of the director Roberto Rosalini and the actor Ingrid Bergman.

She's probably best known as an actor. She's had acclaimed parts in movies like Blue Velvet

and Death Becomes Her and Big Night. She's up for best supporting actress at this year's

Academy Awards for her part in Conclave, the papal drama directed by Edward Berger.

But to say she's just an actor is a bit unfair.

She's a lot more than just a terrific actor. She's a model, a performance artist, an accomplished

singer. She's even an academic. Just a few years ago, she earned a master's degree in animal

behavior from Hunter College in New York. When Rosalini and Louis

Vertell talked in 2022, she had just performed alongside Jenny Slate in the movie Marcel the

shell with shoes on. It's a comedy that mixes animation and live action based on Slate's

viral shorts from 2010. Slate is the film's title character. Marcel is a tiny talking seashow

with red shoes and a single googly eye. He's the subject of a documentary.

Isabella Rosalini plays Marcel's Nana, Connie, who as you're about to hear is not quite clear

on exactly what a documentary is. It's like a movie, but nobody has any lines, and nobody even knows what it is while they're making it. Mm. No? That's sort of a way to put it, yeah. No, I just am making a little video portrait. About Marcel? Yeah. A film? Oh, yeah. It's like the truth, kind of.

It's a movie.

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