Best known in America for her role as Slack in George Romero’s “Land of the Dead,” and known internationally as the sultry, tattooed actress daughter of Italian horror director Dario Argento, Asia Argento wed director Michele Civetta earlier today during a ceremony in Tuscany, Italy.
The couple met in 2006 during the filming of “Friendly Fire,” a meandering, extended music video directed by Civetta, based on celeb progeny Sean Lennon’s eponymous album. In addition to Argento, the film featured performances by Jordana Brewster, Bijou Phillips, Devon Aoki, and Lindsay Lohan.
The two began dating last year, and are expecting their first child together next month.
During a 2002 interview with Craig Kilborn on The Late, Late Show, Argento talked about her decision to begin acting, at the age of 9, as a way to capture her father’s attention, saying, “I wanted my parents – since my father is a director – I thought that by working in movies, he might cast me one day, so I’d get his attention. But he didn’t cast me until I was 16. How weird is that?”
(And her first marriage is to a film director, how weird is that?)
32 year-old Argento, whose previous romantic attachments include Jonathan Rhys Meyers and director Vincent Gallo (of the infamous “Brown Bunny” fellatio scene with Chloe Sevigny), is set to film an adaptation of Ryu Murakami’s “Coin Locker Babies” with Civetta later this year, which will also feature Val Kilmer and Brady Corbett.
Peekaboo undergarments were a bona fide Fall ‘09 runway trend—see Balenciaga, Yves Saint Laurent, Maison Martin Margiela. But Asia Argento, pictured here in a Chanel gown at the Cannes Chopard Trophy event, is one of the first starlets to test-drive the look on the red carpet. The frock’s plunging neckline and sheer overlay do little to disguise what’s essentially a jeweled bandeau. Would you wear something like this? Or is it a style better left in the bedroom? 
