“It seems that there is something in those two characters that generates magic,” Leonor Varela commented on the American miniseries Cleopatra, in which she starred in 1999. There she played the Egyptian queen and began dating her co-star, American actor Billy Zane, who personified “Marco Antonio”.
The 49-year-old Chilean actress recalled the romance in the late Pero con Respeto, in Chilevisión:
Julio Cesar Rodriguez: “If little things have happened to you when you have acted in movies. Because the other time it happened to me in a rehearsal and I’m not even an actor “
Eleanor Varela: “That is, you want us to talk about my intimacy”
Rodriguez: “No, no, no… If only in a movie, a little butterfly…”
Varela: “Look, this is no secret to anyone, so I can say it. When I played Cleopatra, it wasn’t with ‘Julius Caesar’ that I got tangled up and fell in love. ‘Cleopatra’ falls in love with ‘Marco Antonio’, as everyone knows…
“And Cleopatra, my Cleopatra, and he, Marcó Antonio, also had a long courtship. Clearly things happened to me when we kissed. I was dating Billy Zane for two years.”
Rodriguez: “Two years. So long?”
Varela: “I don’t know if that long”
Rodriguez: “I thought it had been less. I get jealous and nothing to do”
Varela: “Yeah poh. Little things happened, they gave me butterflies. Looks like it was mutual.”
Rodriguez: “Had you been on the Titanic?”
Varela: “Of course”
Rodriguez: “He is the antagonist”
Varela: “The villain”
Rodriguez: “And was DiCaprio involved? That one more time… No, no…”
Varela: “Actually this program is not called But With Respect, it is called” 33 degrees separation with DiCaprio “
Rodriguez: “That’s what it’s called… And you felt the connection on set, let’s say”
Varela: “Yes. We fell in love with that project.”
Rodriguez: “And that’s why Cleopatra… What happens is that, falling in love with the project, something special is generated”
Varela: “After what happened to Liz Taylor and Richard Burton, who also did Cleopatra and Mark Antony (in the classic 1963 film), their love story was also epic. It seems that there is something in those two characters that generates a magic that… Who am I to say no?
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“When I played ‘Cleopatra’ and he played ‘Marco Antonio’ we had a long courtship… I was dating Billy Zane for two years”, recalls Leonor Varela