Marisa Tomei Had To Be Convinced To Chop Off Her Long Hair Into A Pixie Cut For ‘Only You’

Marisa Tomei is well known for her long hair, but in the mid-1990s, she reignited the pixie cut trend.

However, it turns out that she really had to be convinced to cut her hair that short for her role in rom-com, Only You.

In a recent interview, costume designer Nicoletta Ercole opened up about how she convinced Marisa to undergo the drastic chop.

“Marisa, at the beginning, she arrived right after she won [the Oscar] for My Cousin Vinny. She had very long hair,” Nicoletta recalled to IndieWire. “I said, ‘Why can’t you cut it? Like this, it’s normal. It’s nothing special.’”

Nicoletta went on, remembering that she convinced her to do it, only with the promise of having the best hairstylist in the world at the time do it.

“Marisa, she’s not … she’s so beautiful but she’s not particularly beautiful, you know what I mean? Like everybody else. So I said, ‘Why don’t you cut your hair?’ And she said, ‘No! I don’t want to cut my hair!’ I told her, ‘OK, I know the best hairstylist in the world, Aldo Signoretti. He’s in Rome. If you want, I can call him.’”

She did just that, telling him to get on the first flight to LA: “I called him and said, ‘Go to an airport, get the first flight to L.A. You need to come here to cut the hair of Marisa Tomei.’ He cut her hair in the little garden at my apartment.”

Marisa‘s pixie cut for the movie reignited the pixie cut trend, which was popular in the late 1960s and 1970s.

Only You, also starring Robert Downey, Jr., centered on a teacher who leaves her fiance for Italy, in pursuit of a man with the name of her soul mate.

It’s available to rent on Prime Video, Apple TV+ and Vudu.