All About Actress and Director’s Romance

Tim Burton and Monica Bellucci sparked relationship rumors lengthy earlier than they confirmed their relationship — now, the director and the actress have made a film collectively, Beetlejuice Beetlejuice, which was launched within the U.S. on Sept. 6.

“What I can say … I’m glad I met the person, initially,” Bellucci advised Elle France in June 2023, simply after information broke that Burton had solid her within the extremely anticipated sequel to the long-lasting 1988 movie Beetlejuice. “It is a kind of encounters that hardly ever occurs in life … I do know the person, I really like him and now I’ll meet the director — one other journey begins.”

Burton rose to fame directing films together with 1985’s Pee-wee’s Large Journey, 1989’s Batman and 1990’s Edward Scissorhands. Beetlejuice was solely his second characteristic movie. Italian star Bellucci had a profession as a mannequin earlier than showing in films similar to Bram Stoker’s Dracula (1992) and the Matrix sequels (in 2003 and 2021).

Although Burton and Bellucci met a few years earlier than, they didn’t formally grow to be a pair till 2023, making their first public look on the purple carpet of that 12 months’s Rome Movie Pageant. Up till they began working collectively on Beetlejuice Beetlejuice, the couple stored their work fully separate from their relationship. “I am with Tim. Not with Tim Burton,” Bellucci advised Paris Match in June 2024.

Learn on to be taught all about Burton and Bellucci’s relationship.

They first met in 2006

Burton and Bellucci first met on the purple carpet on the 2006 Cannes Movie Pageant in France — however it was a short assembly, when each have been in long-term relationships with different individuals.

The 2 reconnected in October 2022 on the Lumière Movie Pageant in Lyon, France, the place Bellucci offered Burton with the competition’s lifetime achievement Lumière Award. “All my life put collectively, I’ve by no means felt a lot love as tonight,” Burton mentioned on the occasion, per The Occasions. “Welcome to the perfect funeral I ever had.”

Not lengthy after, the pair sparked relationship rumors once they appeared arm-in-arm in Madrid. It wasn’t till October 2023 once they made a public look collectively on a purple carpet on the Rome Movie Pageant in Italy. Burton was there to help Bellucci on the premiere of her movie Maria Callas: Lettere e Memorie. Protection of the occasion in Rome described Burton as “so in love and glad,” in response to The Impartial.

They each have well-known exes

Burton was in a long-term relationship with Harry Potter star Helena Bonham Carter from 2000 to 2014. The previous couple welcomed son Billy in 2003, and daughter Nell in 2007. The 2 made headlines for his or her uncommon dwelling association, preserving separate homes subsequent door to one another, which have been related by a hallway.

“We simply have two homes knocked collectively as a result of mine was too small,” Bonham Carter advised The Telegraph in 2010. “We see as a lot of one another as any couple, however our relationship is enhanced by understanding now we have our private area to retreat to.” Although they have been by no means married, when the connection ended, Bonham Carter described it as “a divorce.”

“I went by way of a really painful divorce,” she mentioned in 2022 on the podcast Remedy Works. “It was a long-lasting factor. That is the opposite factor, it isn’t that finite. It by no means ends. Even when you divorce anyone, it is a form of marriage when you have kids with them. The connection has to vary. It is a very difficult factor the way to share the kids.”

Bellucci married French actor Vincent Cassel (from Oceans 12 and Oceans 13) in 1999. The couple welcomed daughter Deva Cassel in 2004, and daughter Léonie Cassel in 2010. Deva advised Gen V in 2023 that her mother and father “taught me to at all times look ahead, at all times defend myself, at all times be type and at all times maintain surprise in thoughts … There’s far more, however the level is that they’ve taught me the way to deal with sudden conditions and stay by my very own guidelines, whereas at all times respecting individuals and the atmosphere I’m in.”

Bellucci and Vincent break up in 2013.

Bellucci identifies with the themes in Burton’s films

Talking publicly about their relationship for the primary time to Elle France, Bellucci revealed that she connects to the themes in Burton’s work. “I really like this dream world the place the monsters are type, like we are able to flip our darker elements into one thing brilliant, forgiving,” she mentioned. “Tim Burton’s movies discuss that so much.”

They labored collectively on Beetlejuice Beetlejuice

In Might 2023, The Hollywood Reporter introduced that Bellucci had been solid within the long-awaited Beetlejuice sequel. She performs the spouse of the “ghost with probably the most.” The film filmed primarily in London.

“I really like Tim,” Bellucci advised Elle France in June 2023. “And I’ve nice respect for Tim Burton.”

“On this final one, Beetlejuice 2, I actually loved it,” Burton advised The Impartial in 2023. “I attempted to strip every part and return to the fundamentals of working with good individuals and actors and puppets. It was form of like going again to why I favored making films.”

The film debuted on the Venice Movie Pageant on Aug. 28, 2024.

They appeared collectively for an enormous honor for Bellucci

In July 2024, the couple attended the Globo d’Oro Awards in Rome, the place Bellucci was offered with a lifetime achievement award. The looks was noteworthy not simply due to the award, however as a result of the 2 don’t usually make public appearances collectively. On the purple carpet, Burton was affectionate, kissing Bellucci’s cheek.

Bellucci thinks Burton has a “spectacular soul”

In a 2023 interview with Harper’s Bazaar Espana, the actress spoke overtly about her emotions for the director. “I discovered in Tim an exquisite spirit,” she mentioned. “I met a spectacular soul.”