Monica Bellucci co-stars with Toni
Collette in Catherine Hardwicke's new Mob dark comedy Mafia
Mamma, set to hit US screens on Friday.
The 58-year-old Umbrian actor plays the 'consigliere' of a clan
led by Collette in fighting a turf war with a rival clan.
The film, shot in Italy with an almost all-Italian cast and
crew, "was fun, we filmed between Rome and Bracciano, I hadn't
done many comedies in my life so it was a new experience," the
former Bond girl and Matrix star told ANSA.
"Monica was the only person we approached to play Bianca," said
Hardwicke.
"It was phenomenal to set her energy and sense of humour against
Toni's'".
In the film, Colette's second with Hardwicke after Miss You
Already, the 50-year-old Australian star of Muriel's Wedding and
Knives Out plays an American woman parachuted into leading a
crime family.
"She suddenly finds herself in a world she knows nothing about.
She's a fish totally out of water and full of good intentions
but she finds her autonomy in this world," said Collette at the
New York premiere.
photo: Bellucci at February's Cesar Awards
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