It has been almost seven years since the last time Kim Basinger was seen on a big screen. It was in February 2017, when Fifty Shades Darker –film sequel to the saga 50 shades of gray– came to the theaters to add a couple of cayennes to the Valentine’s Day recipe that year with the addition of the actress to the cast as a great novelty. Who better to give life to the partner and ex-lover of the protagonist of the erotic franchise than the great sexual myth of the eighties and nineties? Although the film’s success at the box office revitalized the public’s interest in the Oscar winner for LA Confidentialand she herself confirmed her intention to resume her award-winning career, the truth is that her participation ended up being a professional epilogue that will not be corrected in the short or medium term.
Kim Basinger celebrates her 70th birthday this December 8 in the same way she has celebrated the rest of the anniversaries of her last decade: away from the spotlight – she hasn’t stepped foot on a red carpet in four years – and focused on her health. Unlike other generation colleagues, who have condemned the ageism and machismo current in Hollywood as responsible for the defenestration of their careers as they get older, the isolation of the actress from the State of Georgia has nothing to do with discrimination. nor with the typecasting in the role of sex symbols. She herself assured in 2021 that she felt in “a privileged position to continue receiving offers,” but other factors beyond vocational have marked her recent trajectory.
The most urgent and pressing has been that of his mental health. In one of the few interviews offered by her in the last fifteen years, Basinger opened up about her fight against agoraphobia, a disabling anxiety disorder that translates as the fear of being in or situations from which it may be difficult to escape or escape. ask for help if you suffer a panic attack, such as closed places or open spaces susceptible to crowding. Although she has suffered from it since childhood, the actress said that during a period in the eighties she spent months without leaving the house or receiving guests. It took her more than a year to feel capable of going through the tunnels of Malibu again, where she lives, and she even had to learn to drive again. “You live with a dry mouth all the time, you are very unstable and you feel exhausted all the time,” confessed in the program Red Table Talk.
Also famous is the panic attack he experienced during the filming of Nine weeks and a half, when her co-star, Mickey Rourke, and the director, Adrian Lyne, agreed to push her to her physical and emotional limits – even hitting her – to optimize her performance. She never told any of her colleagues for fear that the stigmas surrounding her mental health would harm her meteoric career, but she did earn her the reputation of being a difficult actress to work with. Kim Basinger has credited her daughter Ireland, 28, with a pedagogical and healing role in her recovery. “I still feel anxious sometimes, but I have worked very hard not to let it paralyze me like it used to before. I have discovered that taking the focus off of myself helps me. I know it’s ironic for an actress! “That’s why I love being a mother and defending animals: that’s when I really feel powerful,” holds.
Precisely thanks to Ireland, the result of her controversial relationship with actor Alec Baldwin that lasted a decade and ended with an acrimonious divorce, the star made her last appearance before the cameras. It occurred in March of this year, on the occasion of the celebration of the baby shower of the young woman who a couple of months later would give birth to Holland, the actress’s first granddaughter. The unusual party took place at a strip club in Los Angeles and Basinger attended accompanied by her partner since 2014, the stylist and photographer Mitch Stone. As Ireland herself revealed, her mother was petrified when she saw her daughter receiving erotic dances and she hid in a corner with a glass of white wine for the rest of the night. However, the transience of her return to public life was not enough for the most sensational press to take advantage of the opportunity to theorize about her hypothetical aesthetic touches and an appearance. qualified “unrecognizable”. Her first-born daughter was also the first cause of Basinger’s progressive withdrawal from the industry, after suffering from eating disorders such as anorexia and bulimia and entering a rehabilitation center in the middle of the last decade for her addiction to alcohol and drugs.
Gone are the days of three films a year, of taking over the covers of magazines and the folders of teenagers from half the world or the eccentricities made in hollywood like buying an entire town – Braselton, near his hometown – for 20 million dollars. Kim Basinger’s current reality seems much more mundane or, at least, as mundane as the routine of someone who spends her days in her mansion in Maui (Hawaii) can be. The truth is that her distance from her industry has been such that the only thing she has done in these seven years of drought has been to pose for a Miu Miu campaign and provide her voice for a video game. He currently focuses his efforts on the animal rights cause that he has fervently defended for years, using his media profile to, for example, confront governments such as those of Indonesia or South Korea in search of the illegalization of the trade and consumption of beef. dog. Your account instagramwith more than 300,000 followers, is a public showcase in which she shares different initiatives from protection groups and she defines herself in the description of the social network as “an actress who wants all of humanity to one day treat animals with the respect they deserve.”
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