10 Film Directors Who Couldn’t Resist Their Leading Ladies

8. David Lynch and Isabella Rossellini

One day in the mid-1980’s, David Lynch took a break from the casting process of his latest movie, the soon-to-be cult classic Blue Velvet, when he spotted a woman dining opposite. The loquacious auteur turned and said, “Hey, you could be the daughter of Ingrid Bergman.” As it happens, the young woman, Isabella Rossellini, was the daughter of the movie legend. The couple began dating on the set of Blue Velvet (which is either brilliant or an inscrutable mess depending on who you ask). Their relationship lasted four years until 1990. For the record, Rossellini has much better “director husband” taste than poor Milla Jovovich. In addition to her short stint with David Lynch, Rossellini was married to Martin Scorsese from 1979 to 1982.