Isabella Rossellini Refutes Roger Ebert’s Claim That David Lynch ‘Exploited Me’ in ‘Blue Velvet’: ‘I Was an Adult. I Chose to Play the Character’

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Isabella Rossellini Refutes Roger Ebert’s Claim That David Lynch ‘Exploited Me’ in ‘Blue Velvet’: ‘I Was an Adult. I Chose to Play the Character’

One of the most infamous reviews for David Lynch’s “Blue Velvet” to publish when the film opened in 1986 came courtesy of Roger Ebert, who gave the movie one star. Among Ebert’s several criticisms was how Lynch could cast Isabella Rossellini in a role where she gets “humiliated” and then proceed to put it in such an unimportant movie. “[Rossellini] is asked to do things in this film that require real nerve…She is degraded, slapped around, humi…