Rossellini’s lockdown fling

Isabella Rossellini never expected to find romance during the pandemic, said Angelica Jade Bastién in Harper’s Bazaar. The actress and model has had a string of high-profile relationships: She was married to Martin Scorsese from 1979 to 1982, dated David Lynch in the ’80s, and was engaged to Gary Oldman in the ’90s. But in the early 2000s, Rossellini decided to put off seeking love for a few years so she could focus on her two young children. “It became 20 years,” she says. “And do I regret it? No.” The daughter of movie royalty—her mother was Swedish actress Ingrid Bergman, her father the Italian director Roberto Rossellini—she enjoyed being able to live without a partner obsessing over her looks. But last year, she fell into an unexpected romance. “We were caught in the time of Covid, in those early months, in my house” on Long Island, N.Y. “I didn’t expect that at 68 you can have a fling. It was delightful. It wasn’t that he defined my beauty, but it was companionship. And that I miss.” The man has since returned to his West Coast home. “And so I always quote Casablanca”—in which her mother starred opposite Humphrey Bogart—“You know the line is, ‘We’ll always have Paris.’ I always say to this man, ‘We’ll always have Covid.’”