Monica Bellucci and Leonardo DiCaprio: young and seductive in the photo
In 1995, in Paris, someone photographed them like this at a Gianni Versace dinner. Monica Bellucci and Leonardo DiCaprio together we had never seen them
Look at them ... They were young and beautiful. Leonardo DiCaprio and Monica Bellucci very young and beautiful. They came out of that endless scrapbook that is Instagram. Monica Bellucci and Leonardo DiCaprio in 1995. At Gianni Versace's dinner during Paris Fashion Week… The never seen photo.
A few days ago it was Salma Hayek who showed us how she and George Clooney were in those legendary 90s that have just begun. Then it was the turn of Antonio Banderas to re-emerge himself in the version of the time. With the comment of the ex Melanie Griffith.
Now they are sending us back in time. Which together, really, have never been photographed. No agency has them in the "catalog". There is really only this photo, taken by who knows who ...
Monica Bellucci and Leonardo DiCaprio's Oscar gaze
A photo as beautiful as the two of them. Him sitting on the ground (maybe). She bent over the chair. Almost saucy, one might say. Someone writes in the comments: Leo would have deserved the Oscar for the way he looks at her. It's true…
We know that it happened at the dinner organized by Gianni Versace during Paris Fashion Week. He was also photographed with Shalom Harlow, another supermodel (see below).
On the web, Angelica Blechschmidt, art director and editor-in-chief of Vogue Germany, remembers it this way: "I was sitting at the table with a few models. This boy came. Some of the girls greeted him. He gave me his hand. And I said to him: Sorry but I don't know you, who are you? "...
The models, on the other hand, already knew him: Kristen Zang, just that year, inaugurated the long series of girlfriends that continues to this day ...
Monica and Leonardo in 1995: two icons, two stars
He was 21 and looked much younger. The Americans had discovered it for Parents in Blue Jeans, the show. In 1991 he made his debut in horror Critters 3. An agent told him to change his name to Lenny Williams. He refused and did very well ... Not only that: in 1999, he deposited it ...
In 1995 of that Versace dinner with Monica Bellucci, he had already played Want to start over with Robert De Niro. With Happy Birthday, Mr Grape (he and Johnny Depp), had won his first Golden Globe nomination and his first Oscar.
And then: Ready to Die with Sharon Stone and Return from Nowhere. River Phoenix, dying too soon, had bequeathed him Poets from Hell. He was a very young Arthur Rimbaud: very much in love with Paul Verlaine ...
And Monica Bellucci? At 31 invisible years, he was balanced between the catwalks and the sets. In 1990 he had made his TV debut in Life with children. Then she had come The Raffle. In Francis Ford Coppola's Dracula he had been a witch. The Vanzinas had wanted it for the mythical ones.
A few months after that photo, also in Paris, on the set of The Apartment, he would have met Vincent Cassel ...
