Isabella Rossellini: "My Agent Said, 'If You Work With Guy Maddin, I'll Slit My Wrists.'"

I'm well aware that making Grantland's Humblebrag honor roll is a dubious honor at best, but when Isabella Rossellini's name pops up on the CallerID, it's hard to suppress the urge to crow. (Even my wife, who's long since used to interview subjects calling the house, was moved to a "Shut up!" when I told her about it.) But enough about me — read the article instead. It's one of the A.V. Club's "Random Roles," which allowed me to talk not only about Rossellini's two new movies, Late Bloomers and Keyhole, but to go all the way back to Blue Velvet and Tough Guys Don't Dance, as well as her utterly beguiling tribute to her father, the great Roberto Rossellini, in My Dad Is 100 Years Old.