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Video Diary: Freaks

by Asia Argento on 18 October 2006

'I was regarded as a freak growing up, I was bizarre looking but inside also I had something that scared people.' Asia Argento muses on freakdom, freak cinema and freak fiction.

'I was regarded as a freak growing up, I was bizarre looking but inside also I had something that scared people.' Asia Argento muses on freakdom, freak cinema and freak fiction.

Video Comments

volja
00:24 18 Oct 2006
Call yourself a freak. I wount. No one is normal, but some are a bit less normal than others. and with some it shows and others like to show there different.From the movie Freaks: I still have a picture in my head of the black guy with no arms or legs but with a knive in his mouth looking though.Great! I actually once wrote a story about an independent belly who after a performance of a balletdancing bird could not applaud because of having no hands.Okay maybe I'm a little freakish to. I agree about what your saying about you deciding to accept someone. bonna notte!

friend
00:36 18 Oct 2006
My beautiful freak ,will you answer more questios?Will you talk to me about fetish?

harley
00:48 18 Oct 2006
thank you for your response,child,your fame isn't stopping you from being so open? Goodnight.

SheSmokesDiamonds
01:42 18 Oct 2006
Have you ever felt scared of yourself? And what kind of people scares you? thank you for sharing these intense and private moments with us.. good(?)night

partymonger
01:59 18 Oct 2006
ya, i know where you are coming from Asia. I was "labeled" a freak back in school, but everyone knew of me, they just didnt know me! But thats ok, it was just a label, i was unhappy, i've let people down , vice versa, but smoking weed, and partying makes me feel normal when i take a trip to soothe the pain... freaks accept people for how and who we are, and that my friend is what life should be all about.....

van
04:34 18 Oct 2006
freaks demand attention, i think it fits you well. I wasn't labeled a freak, i don't think, but i didn't label freaks, they labeled themselves and we were friends. simple.

ampersand
07:12 18 Oct 2006
I've been called that since I was very young, maybe seven or eight years old. Personally, I don't think that I live up to that title, but I'd much rather be a freak than be like everyone else.

Se'an O'Brien
11:13 21 Oct 2006
That movie needs to be made. I'll provide the soundtrack if you direct.

Direction:
Screenplay:
Performance:
Styling (womenswear):
Styling (menswear):
Mark McMahon
Make-up:
Set Design:
Janine Trott
Film Edit:
Sound:
Ian Sands
Production:
Sharmin Nordien
Photographic Assistance:
Simon Thistleton, Ruth Hogben
Hair Assistance:
Peter Lux
Make-up Assistance:
Karina Woodruff
Set Design Assistance:
Andy Knight, Sophie Rook, Mark Righo, Meryl Davies, Rhea Thierstein, Louisa Thoughton
Production Assistance:
Karina Aloupi

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