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Italy has given some famous sex symbols of yesteryears such as Sophia Loren, Gina Lollobrigida and Marcello Mastroianni. But in more recent times, Italian stars hardly get an international image except for a stray Roberto Benigni, who can hardly be called a sex symbol. Yet, sex symbols are very much alive and kicking here, even if their names remain limited in the national boundries.

The famous saying that sex is all in the head can be extended also to sex symbols. The persons that I find irristably sexy might leave you completely cold, so the choice of todays Italian sex symbols is very personal.

Kim Rossi Stuart started his career as a young martial arts hero in the Boy with the Golden Kimono series of movies with Ken Watanabe. With blond hair and cool blue eyes, he quickly acquired the fame of being a sex symbol. His long nude scenes for Michelangelo Antonioni and Wim Wanders amplied this fame. After a number of films and TV serials, he decided to shift over to sensible cinema and theatre, choosing films and plays with serious sombre themes. I specially remember his role as the father of a disabled child in Gianni Amelio's Chiavi di Casa (The house keys), where he brought a gentle sensibility and vulnerability to the role of the father who meets his disabled grown up son for the first time and is ashamed of his own cowardness.



Raoul Bova: A story in a USA magazine in 2005 said about him:

Raoul Bova is a movie star but chances are you have never heard of him. He has won prestigious awards, being hounded by paparazzi and starred in nearly 30 films but at the Miramar hotel, Bova is just a handsome European with money to spend.

If all goes according to plan, in a few months Bova will no longer be just another dar haired good looking man in a loose-fitting lemon suit. He will be a multiple magazine cover celebrity, the kind of big star Bova is used to be being in Italy but bigger. Much bigger.

Yes, he did make it to the covers of Vanity Fair and Angeleno, did star with Madonna in a music video but that was it. A couple of years later, he is back in the familiar world of Italian films and TV serials, his hollywood dreams on the backseat for now.



Riccardo Scamarcio is the latest kid on the block. A film with some hot love scenes with the diva Monica Bellucci in Manuale d'Amore 2 (Manual of love 2) have catapulted him into big league recently. His visit to Bologna university a few days ago had loads of girls screaming in a frenzy with the police hard pressed to control the crowds. Among all the persons in this list, he is the only one that personally I wouldn't have selected but then I couldn't think of any other names.

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