joelucah asked:
Can you also put some pictures of the movie Caligula? The best ones on ur page?
“Helen Mirren admits that she did not mind baring all in one project—the 1979 erotic historical drama Caligula. Although it was critically panned upon release, the controversial film starring Malcolm McDowell and Peter O’Toole, and produced by Penthouse founder Bob Guccione, has since found a cult following. As for the reason why Mirren didn’t mind shooting her nude scene in the sexually overt drama: “Everyone was naked in that,” the actress tellsPeople, only half jokingly. “It was like showing up for a nudist camp every day. You felt embarrassed if you had your clothes on in that movie.
Shortly after filming, Mirren described the controversial picture as “an irresistible mix of art and genitals.” In the decades since, as she’s gone on to win myriad awards for her poignant dramatic performances, the Tony winner has stayed loyal to the project, in which she played Caligula’s wife, Caesonia. ‘I’ve never opened my mouth to denigrate Caligula,’ Mirren told The New York Times. ‘I was pretty young when I made that—not physically so much as experienced in film. And you know what? It was a great experience. It was like being sent down to Dante’s Inferno in many ways.’”
—Julie Miller / Vanity Fair
A pictorial of Anneka Di Lorenzo and Lori Wagner on the set of Caligula appeared in Penthouse magazine (1979).
“On the afternoon of Jan. 4, two joggers found the body of a woman washed up on a Camp Pendleton beach, in a restricted no man’s land where Marines train for battle. The dead woman was naked and, though 58, her slender form was youthful enough that military police initially thought she was a teenager. Her name was Anneka Vasta, though she was called Anneka Di Lorenzo as the 1975 Penthouse Pet of the Year. Decades ago she led a life of B-list glamour, appearing in the 1979 soft-porn movie Caligula and dating Penthouse magazine publisher Bob Guccione.
Family and federal investigators are mystified about how Vasta, who became a Los Angeles-area nursing assistant with a grown daughter, ended up drowned on a San Diego County beach with a broken neck and back.”
