Two birds and a movie star

By CHRISTINE SAMS - SMH

Last updated 13:18 08/02/2010

THE BIRDS: Actress Julianne Moore with Shaka and Mr Bird.

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Actress Julianne Moore has teamed up in Rome with two sulphur-crested cockatoos in a sexy shoot for luxury brand Bulgari.

The two birds - Shaka, aged 27, and Mr Bird, aged 13 - were bred in the US from a pure Australian lineage and trained to work as "studio birds".

"Julianne Moore loved them and was very much at ease when she was interacting with them," a Bulgari spokeswoman said. "At a certain point Shaka suddenly said to [Moore], 'I love you', between two shots, which came as a surprise and generated much euphoria."

The inspiration for the Bulgari photos was a famous Helmet Newton shot of Elizabeth Taylor in her pool in the 1980s.

"She was holding a green parrot," said the spokeswoman, with the resulting image looking "very eccentric and charismatic".

She said Moore ''interprets a strong woman, eccentric and charismatic … [and] we chose a white cockatoo for its beauty and symbolism of grace and purity".

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