![]() “I’ve never seen so many fascists and assholes as there are in film and theatre,” says Andrésen. Visconti, he tells me, “didn’t give a fuck” about his feelings. ![]() No one who sees The Most Beautiful Boy in the World, a new documentary about Andrésen’s turbulent and tragic past, will be surprised by that answer. Asked what he would say to Visconti if he were here now, he doesn’t pause. His eyes twinkle as alluringly as ever but he’s no pussycat. Sitting alone in Stockholm today at the age of 66, he looks more like Gandalf with his white beard and his gaunt face framed by shoulder-length white locks. Its release in 1971 made him not merely a star but an instant icon – the embodiment of pristine youthful beauty. ![]() ![]() B jörn Andrésen was just 15 when he walked straight into the lion’s den, being cast as Tadzio, the sailor-suited object of desire in Luchino Visconti’s film Death in Venice. ![]()
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