Elettra Rossellini says she loves Kimchi and Korean barbecue. Korean food is big in New York right now, so she has eaten plenty of it. She confesses she has always had a thing for spicy food. Honestly, before meeting Elettra Rossellini (23), she sounds like a typical New York fashion queen. After all, her grandmother was the actress Ingrid Bergman and her mother Isabella Rossellini, for many years the ¡°face¡± of Lancôme. Elettra is following in her mother¡¯s footsteps as a model for the cosmetics company¡¯s whitening line. A recipe for terminal shallowness, then.
But the best way of describing the woman is ¡°different¡± -- different from one's expectations, that is. She¡¯s not just another one of the ¡°beautiful people.¡± Of course, she did begin modeling at 15, but while majoring in politics, history, and economics she was also an environmental activist. She even has plenty of interest in Korea. Rossellini says she listened to some of the music of the singer Rain, who was in Time magazine's 100 Most Influential People this year. His CDs, she says, are still difficult to find in the U.S., but she made the effort and ended up liking it. If she has a chance she would like to see the movie -- ¡°I¡¯m a Cyborg But That¡¯s OK¡± -- the Ambitious One stars in. Does she have any faults at all?
When Elettra told her mother she was going to be a model, Isabella told her to do as she pleased since it would be an opportunity to travel around and be independent. But she usually makes up her own mind now. Combing her hair with her hands, she delivers an impassioned speech on waste: she bought some clothes from a vendor on the street here in Korea and pronounces them ¡°nice and cheap.¡± Why people would spend money in a department store is beyond her. Her favorite actor, she said, is Kathy Bates, the star of ¡°Fried Green Tomatoes.¡± Unaffected, down-to-earth, the answer suits her.
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