Monica Bellucci: 'beauty Is Not Important'....

Actress Monica Bellucci has urged her young fans to ignore media expectations to look beautiful, insisting looks was meaningless.The 42-year-old star wants more girls to feel confident in themselves and believes that is the key to future success.She tells Moviehole.net, "I say all the time, as I've said before, that it's not important the way you are, but the way you feel."There are so many beautiful young girls, that do so many things to themselves and they're so young, they don't need it. So, I think that I feel fine with myself, not because people say I'm pretty, but just because I have the life that I choose."The star went on to calim that European actress have a tough time in Hollywood.Bellucci claims non-American actresses rarely get offered good roles.She tells Moviehole.net, "When you are European, it's very difficult to find a character that can fit you."When I make a choice, it doesn't matter for me if I'm in the film for five minutes or I'm the lead. It's just that I need to do something, which is why I accepted to be in films like Matrix, Terry Gilliam's The Brothers Grimm or Spike Lee's She Hate Me, because even though I wasn't there more than 20 minutes, I had something to do".

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