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The Russian supermodel who gives it back
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The night before I met Natalia Vodianova, a snowstorm descended on south-east England. The Russian supermodel (‘SuperNova’, as Mario Testino calls her) was on her way back to her house in Sussex from a party in London when her car got stuck in the snow. Rolls- Royces may be the height of luxury, but it seems they are not suited to icy country roads. Luckily, her driver’s house was not far. ‘We couldn’t go forward or backward or anywhere. I walked to his house in my Christian Louboutin heels.’ You must be used to extreme weather conditions, I suggest. She fixes me with her pale aquamarine eyes and shakes her head. ‘It was a long time ago,’ she says.
Vodianova was born 27 years ago in the industrial motor-building city of Nizhny Novgorod, formerly known as Gorky, the fourth largest in Russia. Between November and March, there is almost permanent snow cover. But, as she says, it is more than 10years since she left the city to work as a model in Paris. She looks like a teenager and it is hard to believe that she is old enough for anything to have been a long time ago. But it has been quite a journey from a childhood of poverty to the idyllic converted water mill in the rolling countryside she shares with her husband, Justin Portman, the land-owning half-brother of the 10th Viscount Portman, and their three children.
2006 Public Events
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Natalia Vodianova takes on Medusa
The Supermodel-Making-It-In-Hollywood crown may have belonged to Lily Cole in 2009, thanks to her starring role in The Imaginarium Of Doctor Parnassus, but in 2010 we predict that it’ll be stolen by an equally high profile newcomer: Natalia Vodianova.
According to web whispers, the Russian catwalker is the face of what looks like a fully CGI-ed Medusa in the eagerly-anticipated remake of the 1981 epic Clash Of The Titans, which stars Sam Worthington, Liam Neeson and Gemma Arterton and is set to open in the UK on 26 March.
Despite starring in Roman Coppola’s 2001 film CQ and last year’s Probka, which was directed by Alexander Kott, the film would be Natalia’s first shot at a mainstream Hollywood blockbuster.
Apparently, director Louis Leterrier wanted to reference Medusa’s mythical beauty before she was turned into a snake-headed monster as a punishment doled out by Aphrodite, and decided that Natalia had the superlative look of today. Her involvement is so minimal, however, she’s so far not officially credited, and the production notes are yet to be signed off.
If it really is her, La Vod’s as fierce as a mythical goddess as she is on a runway judging by this extended trailer. See her in all her gory glory at 1:44 (but blink and you’ll miss it).
Source: Handbag.com.
