She took a hiatus from acting for almost twenty years (1998-2016) until she was lured back by Kim Rossi Stuart for a substantial supporting role in Tommaso (2016). (Lassander and Rossi Stuart's father Giacomo Rossi Stuart appeared together in a thriller called Il vizio ha le calze nere (1975) and became close friends, so Kim Rossi Stuart knew Lassander from childhood on.).