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  M.   September 07, 2014

“The little English lady couldn’t speak a word of French. ‘I settled in Paris for several months, next to the Buttes-Chaumont'”, tells the actress, who was lodged by a French family. Anne Fontaine advised her to learn her text while doing an activity, doing the dishes or in the shower, to avoid stiffness. “My linguistic fluctuation suited the role: Gemma (Bovery) looks for the words like she looks for herself, she’s not sure of herself, she’s a stranger, who doesn’t dare to say things.” Regarding the lack of self-assurance, she admits the difference: “I have a huge self confidence. I constantly need novelty, it’s perfect being an actress. I get bored quickly.”

She knew Luchini as much as she knew the language of Molière. “The family who lodged me, they said: ‘You’ll see, he’s insane.’ I didn’t think he was such a big star in your country. I watched a TV show: ‘wow, he’s really talkative! He talks like a crazy train thrown into the night!'” Did he recite her all of Flaubert? “He knew I understood nothing. So, he refrained.”

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“It’s my body, I tried to conceal it, in vain. When I’ll be in my thirties, I’ll have my body roles too.”

“When you’re busty, people want you to play sexy. Well, I’m not a prude, but I don’t want everything to become sexual.”

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– Photo Gallery > Magazine Scans > Scans from 2014 > Le Point (France) – September 4, 2014

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