Q&A: Isabella Rosselli On 'Joy,' Drag & When She Knew 'Death Be Her' Was a Gay Film ('Wh Months') - Pri Source

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• Q&A: ISABELLA ROSSELLI ON ‘JOY,’ DRAG & WHEN SHE KNEW ‘DEATH BE HER’ WAS A GAY FILM (‘WH MONTHS’)
• WHEN ISABELLA ROSSELLI DISVERED "DEATH BE HER" WAS A GAY MOVIE"NOW A WARNG?"{FONT:NORMAL 800 1.2REM/1.2 "D BOLD",SANS-SERIF;TEXT-TRANSFORM:NORMAL;LOR:HER;DISPLAY:LE-BLOCK;PADDG-BOTTOM:6PX;POSN:RELATIVE;TEXT-TRANSFORM:UPPERSE;}{BACKGROUND:#89308A;BOTTOM:0;NTENT:'';DISPLAY:BLOCK;HEIGHT:2PX;LEFT:0;POSN:ABSOLUTE;RIGHT:0;-WEBK-TRANSN:ALL 0.2S EASE;TRANSN:ALL 0.2S EASE;WIDTH:100%;}{LEFT:51%;RIGHT:51%;WIDTH:0;}{FONT:NORMAL 800 1.2REM/1.2 "D BOLD",SANS-SERIF;TEXT-TRANSFORM:NORMAL;LOR:HER;DISPLAY:LE-BLOCK;PADDG-BOTTOM:6PX;POSN:RELATIVE;TEXT-TRANSFORM:UPPERSE;}{BACKGROUND:#89308A;BOTTOM:0;NTENT:'';DISPLAY:BLOCK;HEIGHT:2PX;LEFT:0;POSN:ABSOLUTE;RIGHT:0;-WEBK-TRANSN:ALL 0.2S EASE;TRANSN:ALL 0.2S EASE;WIDTH:100%;}{LEFT:51%;RIGHT:51%;WIDTH:0;}MOVIBY JON ADAMSDECEMBER 21, 2015/9:04 PMBY JON ADAMSDECEMBER 21, 2015 / 9:04 PM{"@NTEXT":","@TYPE":"NEWSARTICLE","HEADLE":"WHEN ISABELLA ROSSELLI DISVERED \"DEATH BE HER\" WAS A GAY MOVIE","DATEPUBLISHED":"2015-12-22T02:04:22.000+0000","DATEMODIFIED":"2015-12-22T02:04:22.000+0000","IMAGE":{"@NTEXT":","@TYPE":"IMAGEOBJECT","WIDTH":1920,"HEIGHT":1080},"URL":","THOR":{"@TYPE":"ORGANIZATN","NAME":"LOGO TV"},"MAENTYOFPAGE":{"@TYPE":"WEBPAGE","@ID":"},"PUBLISHER":{"@TYPE":"ORGANIZATN","@ID":","NAME":"LOGO TV","URL":","LOGO":{"@TYPE":"IMAGEOBJECT"}},"CREATOR":"JON ADAMS","ARTICLESECTN":"MOVI"}{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}ISABELLA ROSSELI MAY BE WNG TOP NOTIC FOR JOY, BUT WE'LL ALWAYS REMEMBER HER AS THE MYSTER LISLE VON RHOMAN OM DEATH BE {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}IN AN TERVIEW WH PRISOURCE, ROSSELI, 63, DISCS HER LONG AND DISTGUISHED REER, AND REFLECTS ON DOG THE ROBERT ZEMECKIS-DIRECTED BLACK {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}RELATED: BT MOVIE EVER: "DEATH BE HER"{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}"WHEN THE FILM ME OUT ROBERT ZEMECKIS WAS SO SUCCSFUL AFTER ROGER RABB AND THE FILMS THAT HE DID AT THE TIME WERE BIG, BIG, BIG. ALSO, THEY WERE FAY FILMS, SO WHEN HE DID DEATH BE HER HE ALSO THOUGHT WAS GOG TO BE A FAY FILM."{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}SHE ADDS THAT, AFTER DOG MARKETG REARCH, THE STUD ME BACK AND SAID "OH, 'S A GAY FILM!"{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}THE FILM, WHICH HAS NEVER FULLY RECEIVED S DUE THE MASTREAM, SE HOLLYWOOD LEGENDS GOLDIE HAWN AND MERYL STREEP PLAYG BICKERG ENEMI, WHO RORT TO A DANGERO POTN TO REMA ETERNALLY {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}THE INIC STARS, AND ISSU OF BETY, YOUTH AND SEXUAL RIVALRY, MAKE DEATH BE HER A QUEER {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}ROSSELI WEL ANY AND ALL ADORATN OM THE GAY MUNY, SAYG SHE FDS TO BE "FUN."{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}"I KNOW THERE ARE CERTA WOMEN LIKE JUDY GARLAND AND BARBRA STREISAND WHO ARE PARTICULARLY LIKED BY THE GAY CULTURE," SHE {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}"I KNOW THAT STRONG WOMEN ARE LIKED, AND I WONR WHY STRONG WOMEN AND NOT WEAK WOMEN... WHY DID YOU LIKE SO MUCH STRONGER WOMEN STEAD OF, LIKE, A HOEWIFE?"{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}DO YOU HAVE TO ASK, ISABELLA?{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;CLEAR:BOTH;}{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;MARG:0 TO;WIDTH:90%;M-WIDTH:288PX;MAX-WIDTH:1440PX;M-HEIGHT:194PX;}LATT NEWS

Q&A: ISABELLA ROSSELLI ON ‘JOY,’ DRAG & WHEN SHE KNEW ‘DEATH BE HER’ WAS A GAY FILM (‘WH MONTHS’)

“Now, a warng, ” her potn-toutg character, Lisle Von Rhuman, utned Meryl’s Male Ashton to the light of supremely geeked gays everywhere.

Rosselli reveals that “Death Be Her” was always meant to be one of the gayt films about bety you’ve ever seen – even if she, and director Robert Zemeckis, didn’t know at first. “Robert Zemeckis told me, ” Rosselli says about disverg that she was, fact, starrg a “gay film.

Also, they were fay films, so when he did “Death Be Her” he also thought was gog to be a fay film, but then they did all this marketg rearch and said” – Rosselli unleash a whoopg lgh – “‘Oh, ’s a gay film! ) “Wh three, four months he said, ‘You know, our dience is a gay dience, '” Rosselli rells. Rosselli has bee acctomed to swoong gay adoratn.

WHEN ISABELLA ROSSELLI DISVERED "DEATH BE HER" WAS A GAY MOVIE"NOW A WARNG?"{FONT:NORMAL 800 1.2REM/1.2 "D BOLD",SANS-SERIF;TEXT-TRANSFORM:NORMAL;LOR:HER;DISPLAY:LE-BLOCK;PADDG-BOTTOM:6PX;POSN:RELATIVE;TEXT-TRANSFORM:UPPERSE;}{BACKGROUND:#89308A;BOTTOM:0;NTENT:'';DISPLAY:BLOCK;HEIGHT:2PX;LEFT:0;POSN:ABSOLUTE;RIGHT:0;-WEBK-TRANSN:ALL 0.2S EASE;TRANSN:ALL 0.2S EASE;WIDTH:100%;}{LEFT:51%;RIGHT:51%;WIDTH:0;}{FONT:NORMAL 800 1.2REM/1.2 "D BOLD",SANS-SERIF;TEXT-TRANSFORM:NORMAL;LOR:HER;DISPLAY:LE-BLOCK;PADDG-BOTTOM:6PX;POSN:RELATIVE;TEXT-TRANSFORM:UPPERSE;}{BACKGROUND:#89308A;BOTTOM:0;NTENT:'';DISPLAY:BLOCK;HEIGHT:2PX;LEFT:0;POSN:ABSOLUTE;RIGHT:0;-WEBK-TRANSN:ALL 0.2S EASE;TRANSN:ALL 0.2S EASE;WIDTH:100%;}{LEFT:51%;RIGHT:51%;WIDTH:0;}MOVIBY JON ADAMSDECEMBER 21, 2015/9:04 PMBY JON ADAMSDECEMBER 21, 2015 / 9:04 PM{"@NTEXT":","@TYPE":"NEWSARTICLE","HEADLE":"WHEN ISABELLA ROSSELLI DISVERED \"DEATH BE HER\" WAS A GAY MOVIE","DATEPUBLISHED":"2015-12-22T02:04:22.000+0000","DATEMODIFIED":"2015-12-22T02:04:22.000+0000","IMAGE":{"@NTEXT":","@TYPE":"IMAGEOBJECT","WIDTH":1920,"HEIGHT":1080},"URL":","THOR":{"@TYPE":"ORGANIZATN","NAME":"LOGO TV"},"MAENTYOFPAGE":{"@TYPE":"WEBPAGE","@ID":"},"PUBLISHER":{"@TYPE":"ORGANIZATN","@ID":","NAME":"LOGO TV","URL":","LOGO":{"@TYPE":"IMAGEOBJECT"}},"CREATOR":"JON ADAMS","ARTICLESECTN":"MOVI"}{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}ISABELLA ROSSELI MAY BE WNG TOP NOTIC FOR JOY, BUT WE'LL ALWAYS REMEMBER HER AS THE MYSTER LISLE VON RHOMAN OM DEATH BE {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}IN AN TERVIEW WH PRISOURCE, ROSSELI, 63, DISCS HER LONG AND DISTGUISHED REER, AND REFLECTS ON DOG THE ROBERT ZEMECKIS-DIRECTED BLACK {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}RELATED: BT MOVIE EVER: "DEATH BE HER"{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}"WHEN THE FILM ME OUT ROBERT ZEMECKIS WAS SO SUCCSFUL AFTER ROGER RABB AND THE FILMS THAT HE DID AT THE TIME WERE BIG, BIG, BIG. ALSO, THEY WERE FAY FILMS, SO WHEN HE DID DEATH BE HER HE ALSO THOUGHT WAS GOG TO BE A FAY FILM."{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}SHE ADDS THAT, AFTER DOG MARKETG REARCH, THE STUD ME BACK AND SAID "OH, 'S A GAY FILM!"{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}THE FILM, WHICH HAS NEVER FULLY RECEIVED S DUE THE MASTREAM, SE HOLLYWOOD LEGENDS GOLDIE HAWN AND MERYL STREEP PLAYG BICKERG ENEMI, WHO RORT TO A DANGERO POTN TO REMA ETERNALLY {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}THE INIC STARS, AND ISSU OF BETY, YOUTH AND SEXUAL RIVALRY, MAKE DEATH BE HER A QUEER {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}ROSSELI WEL ANY AND ALL ADORATN OM THE GAY MUNY, SAYG SHE FDS TO BE "FUN."{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}"I KNOW THERE ARE CERTA WOMEN LIKE JUDY GARLAND AND BARBRA STREISAND WHO ARE PARTICULARLY LIKED BY THE GAY CULTURE," SHE {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}"I KNOW THAT STRONG WOMEN ARE LIKED, AND I WONR WHY STRONG WOMEN AND NOT WEAK WOMEN... WHY DID YOU LIKE SO MUCH STRONGER WOMEN STEAD OF, LIKE, A HOEWIFE?"{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}DO YOU HAVE TO ASK, ISABELLA?{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;CLEAR:BOTH;}{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;MARG:0 TO;WIDTH:90%;M-WIDTH:288PX;MAX-WIDTH:1440PX;M-HEIGHT:194PX;}LATT NEWS

“I had a iend who was gay who died, unfortunately, and he would go out on Halloween and drs up like me. “I know there are certa women like Judy Garland and Barbra Streisand who are particularly liked by the gay culture. “I don’t know what is the gay culture!

What is that mak the gay culture to be so supportive of Barbra Streisand, Judy Garland, imag of the inic women? I expla that, when to empowered female ins, young gay men like myself aspire to their strength and power.