Going through this musical experience really helped us to understand the core of the film.
I've done many, many French movies and many, many English movies. I think it frees something when you don't talk in your mother language, but I also think you withdraw something as well. I'm a French actress, and sometimes I speak in English-speaking roles. For me, being an actress was always being a traveler. It goes together.
Like all school students, I think I did a play in my school. The common things, I would say. Nothing really exceptional.
I don't think I'm that intellectual.
A script is a very rough material in a way. Whatever questions you might have regarding the script, you might find the beginning of the answers in the book.
I was the youngest of five, and I think my mother always knew I was meant to be an actress.
Well, my mother, she made me apply for a school where I was supposed to learn how to type. She said, well, instead of going to demonstrate she should at least [learn], because, everything was on strike. So we had to learn something in the meantime.
If on paper one would say, "You're gonna spend three weeks in Death Valley," you say, "No, I'm not going to be able to." Very often, very quickly you forget about it.
One would expect an actress to stand onscreen mostly as a caricature. If she would say, "I'm selling shoes," you would believe her. She says it and it creates this fiction, non-fiction perception of the film. People believe it because she says it. If she said, "I'm a butcher," people would believe it too, I think.
It was sometimes 60 degrees [Celsius], but it's very strange, cinema makes you forget reality most of the time. You are more concerned about your inner feelings, or your work.
In a very complex way, things have improved in the dramatic field. Before you had the good and the bad and you couldn't mingle them. Now it's more ambiguous.
But someone like Claude Chabrol tries to make a connection between the society in which we live and the social reasons which make monsters out of some people
But theatre is always a difficult experience.
I did a film very quickly, and then a lot of work for television, and then I did stage work.
But on the whole, nothing requires unbearable energy for me, it's just a normal thing.
I never wondered whether I should be a stage actress or a movie actress.
