[Translated] It’s been a long time, but has been an icon of the 70s erotica. Provocative, enveloping, release compared to some contemporary stereotypical female models. Interpreting her film “Deep Throat” – a forerunner of porn auteur, was 1972 – has sparked a revolution. Then, rejecting the pornography that had given her fame, even testifying against it, has become even feminist activist and became a symbol of violence against women. Linda Lovelace, “name” Linda Susan Boreman, has marked an era.
Now her life back on the big screen, with a very sexy Amanda Seyfried, whose role has literally transformed, tinged with brown hair and adjusting her body to the character shapes bursting. In Lovelace, directed by Rob Epstein and Jeffrey Friedman, released in the United States on August 9 (in Italy we will see in January, 2014), starring opposite James Franco, Peter Sarsgaard, Sharon Stone, Adam Brody, Juno Temple, Chloë Sevigny.
We met to talk about Lovelace last Sundance Film Festival.
What is meant interpret Linda Lovelace?
I had to change my physical appearance, first of all. But the character has always fascinated me, because it was the symbol of a period and a woman with a life of cruelty, an intense character who made ??a piece of American history and even now continues to be present and to be talked about.
What struck you most of the story of this woman?
Linda has suffered physical and psychological abuse. Represent it was a path “dark”. It was not “amoral.” She fell in love Chuck Traynor, her future husband, or believed to be, to escape strict parents and conservatives. It is said that he even had a gun to my head to force her to turn porn movies and prostitution.
How did you prepare?
I studied the DVD, the book he had written the same Lovelace, photographs and footage. Of course I watched and covered Deep Throat and other porn movies of the time, I tried to identify with the protagonist as a woman and with his inner drama.
What was the major difficulty encountered in this role?
I was worried that it was a real character, because I felt a responsibility to reflect a woman first of all fragile.
What is left of those 70s?
There was a good dose of hedonism and even a certain innocence, now lost. It was on the sexual revolution and the world of porn was very different, more difficult to approach. It’s not like now, where you just turn on a computer to being overwhelmed.
Linda Lovelace is an emblem or symbol of emancipation of women as objects?
Linda interpret its 21 years, while he was filming the movie, as you approached the religion in her thirties. Eventually he joined the feminist anti-pornography movement with a. She became an activist and tried to help others. For me, however, was a brave woman.