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Listen Again: Julia Gets Wise with Isabella Rossellini

Listen Again: Julia Gets Wise with Isabella Rossellini

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Isabella Rossellini is nominated for Best Supporting Actress at this weekend’s Academy Awards. Before the big show, we wanted to give you a chance to listen back to her incredible conversation with Julia.

Today on Wiser Than Me, Julia sits down with 72-year-old actress, director, and model Isabella Rossellini, currently starring in the film Conclave. The two dive into a conversation about Isabella’s Long Island farm, why she loves referring to herself as ancient, and her personal journey with sexuality and romance, particularly in her later years. Plus, Julia asks her 90-year-old mom, Judith, to recite a perfectly timed Mary Oliver poem and plots a potential adventure with her.

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occasionally from time to time, how impactful they can be in the positive with the public.

This is the first episode I'm listening to of this podcast and I loved the wisdom that was shared. That's what matters to the podcast lol. After this, it gets a little personal so please forgive my nostalgia.


Being a child in the 90s without a mother would have been depressing, if I didn't have what I would call, Smart Cool Women to look up to in my male dominated world at the time. When all you have is TV and a few precious Disney films and a few recorded Scotch VHS tapes (The Odyssey and A Bugs Life in particular) "Elaine" and "Athena" become familiar faces and voices. They inspired me so much and even taught me the things no adult would since they were hardly around. Whether they be a lesson in common sense like how never to lie because it gets you into deeper trouble, or eat someone else's cake slice for that matter. Or the bigger things that remind you to push through the bad times like "the gods will not do for man, what man must do for himself." These characters had a positive impact on me even when I was told by some they are just characters, not real people. To which I would say, "but they really believe in what it is they do otherwise it wouldn't be so good to watch." For me that made the story real enough even when I understood that truly, it is the character fans fall in love with. I didn't mind, I was happy to have that as a kid because for some it's all they have that is positive and for others they have no one at all to look up to. I did.
So when you get a rare moment to listen to a candid conversation with women who made you happy and helped you discover yourself as a young girl, it is a gift knowing you had every right to keep that good feeling they gave you for so long. You can't know them anymore personally, but it feels good to connect with so many things they say as an individual too. You feel good to have let them in your heart and kept them in your memory in the first place and held onto what lessons they taught without ever knowing it. That is the power that an actress gives and leaves the world. I was blessed to be inspired by these women in many of their characters as a girl, and I still feel so good today hearing them speak as themselves and getting new knowledge, only now as Wise Cool Women.

Actresses should know....

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