translation of italian Panorama 22. December 1985 interview:

3 years ago, a friend asked her to go together at a beauty Contest in her birth place, Aarhus in Denmark. She won it and, since then, it was a whirl of meetings, contracts and successes...! Eilleen Ford, owner of the Ford models Inc. agency, contacted her and Renée Simonsen shortly became one of the most requested models in New York.
As casual, was her way in the cinema world. The Director Carlo Vanzina choosed her for a role in the "Nothing underneath" film, after having seen her face on the covers of many fashion magazines.

Answer: Was yours a fulminante career?
Reply: I had the luck to be in the right place at the right moment. My healthy, tall, robust look of woman with large shoulders, for example, is right now fashionable, but it was not at all 10 years ago.

A: The book to which the film's inspired, gives a strongly critic vision of the fashion world. What do you think about?
R: People likes to think that models world is dominated by sex and drugs. But they forget that most of girls has to work every day since 9 a.m. to 7 p.m. and cannot take drugs, otherwise they risk to waste their body and cannot do too much late in the night, because in the next morning they will have to be on the set without any circle under their eyes. But I cannot deny that strange personages or cocaine do exist.

A: Have you ever been afraid about the fact that in your career you will often end to be "pensioned" at 30 years old?
R: No. I have never thought to be a model for the rest of my life. This is a job that, in the order, for first fascinates, then satisfies and after some years it bores. I am just at the top of satisfaction.

A: Do you think being a model is a good school for cinema?
R: Being a model, you learn not to have fear of the camera objective, to be relaxed, to move in a certain way and, most of all, to show your personality and you style in the clearest and strongest way as possible. It is usefull both in front of a camera and a cine-camera.

A: How was your passage to cinema activities?
R: Really less difficult than I was afraid about. What helped me a lot, was the presence of many other models on the set.

A: What was the hardest moment?
R: When I was told that I should have to kiss a stranger. And that I had to do it in a way as passional as possible..


BIG THANKS to Annarita for the translation!