Marlon Brando's Rejection of Elizabeth Taylor and Sophia Loren: Exploring the Reasons Behind His Choices
Marlon Brando, a renowned Hollywood actor, is widely recognized for his exceptional talent and success in the film industry.
Throughout his six-decade-long career, he received numerous accolades and gained fame not only for his movies but also for his relationships with Hollywood actresses.
However, it is interesting to note that he rejected advances from prominent stars such as Elizabeth Taylor and Sophia Loren.
The reasons behind Brando's choices can be traced back to his troubled upbringing, marked by an abusive father and an alcoholic mother.
These experiences shaped his desires and insecurities, fueling his well-known s**ual appetite.
In fact, a book published in 2017 delves into the precise factors that led him to decline famous beauties like Taylor and Loren.
According to The Express, Marlon Brando had a penchant for having multiple partners simultaneously, a preference that stemmed from his deep connection with Ermi, his childhood housekeeper.
Brando shared a bed with her and later confessed to being infatuated with her.
Describing their relationship, he said, “I sat there looking at her body and fondling her bre-sts, and arranged myself on her and crawled over her.
She was all mine; she belonged to me and me alone.
Had she known of my blinding worship of her, we would have married.”
It was through this bond with Ermi, who had Danish and Indonesian heritage, that Brando developed his preference for brunettes and women of diverse ethnic backgrounds.
While Brando had intimate encounters with iconic figures like Marlene Dietrich, Marilyn Monroe, and Grace Kelly, he was also discerning about his choices.
He had specific reasons for rejecting certain well-known stars from the silver screen.
For instance, despite working with Elizabeth Taylor on the film Reflections in a Golden Eye in 1967, Brando refused to engage in a s**ual relationship with her because he felt that “her posterior was not up to his standards.”
Similarly, during the filming of A Countess from Hong Kong the previous year, he avoided Sophia Loren's advances due to what he described as her “unpleasant breath worse than a dinosaur's.”
It is worth mentioning that Marlon Brando was also open about his bisexuality and had relationships with other men.
He never concealed these experiences and once admitted, “I, too, have had homosexual encounters.”
In a separate but equally intriguing story, Jennifer Lopez once found herself in a s*x scene with Ryan Guzman, where
