ROSSELLINI: Thank you so much for having me. GROSS: My interview with Isabella Rossellini was recorded in 1997. Our series, Classic Films and Movie Icons, continues through Labor Day.

The great Rossellini tells IndieWire about playing a not-so-subservient nun in her biggest Oscar contender in years, the glory of shooting at Cinecittà, and why her "heart beat very fast" around ...

ROSSELLINI: Thank you so much for having me. GROSS: My interview with Isabella Rossellini was recorded in 1997. Our series, Classic Films and Movie Icons, continues through Labor Day.

ISABELLA ROSSELLINI: Thank you. GROSS: You played a nightclub singer who is exotic and mesmerizing, but is in a weird and abusive relationship with a psycho played by Dennis Hopper. ROSSELLINI: Yes.

Let's get back to our Classic Films and Movie Icons series and continue my 1997 interview with Isabella Rossellini. Her father was the Italian neorealist film director Roberto Rossellini, and her ...