“Maybe some actresses would have accepted. “I didn’t get offered interesting parts, and I also probably didn’t have a good agent at the time,” she says. While she’s worked with some of the world’s leading auteurs, from Jacques Demy to Luis Buñuel to François Truffaut to François Ozon, and been in a few American films, she never pursued a career in the U.S., even after being nominated for an Oscar for her role in Regis Wargnier’s 1992 “Indochine,” the last French film to have won a foreign-language Oscar. But it wasn’t her wish.” (In 2017, on Facebook, Björk accused a “Danish director” of sexual harassment on-set. “Lars said, ‘OK, then I’m not doing it.’ Björk was devastated by the idea that what she had created wouldn’t exist, so she ended up doing the film. Björk had written all the music for the 2000 film, but she didn’t want to star in it. “Lars’ problem was with Björk, who had decided she didn’t want to be in the film anymore,” says Deneuve. The name of director Lars von Trier comes up in this context - he will also be at Venice to present his TV series “The Kingdom.” Deneuve says she got along very well with him on the tumultuous shoot of “Dancer in the Dark.” That’s always been the case - even more so today.”ĭeneuve says she binged “Yellowstone” during the pandemic and admits that she’s now open to working on a television series if the right project comes along. When asked about re-teaming with famous directors she’s worked with before, she says, “There are a lot of people I’d like to work with, but I don’t think about it today what matters to me are the scripts. Even if the film is about political icons, it’s done with off-beat humor,” says Deneuve. She just wrapped the shoot of her first project in three years, Lea Domenach’s “La Tortue,” in which she stars as Bernadette Chirac, the widow of former French president Jacques Chirac. Now, she’s trying to slow down, with mixed success. I found the final result to be ambiguous.” Though Deneuve was on hand in Cannes this year to present the film in competition, she clearly wasn’t thrilled with the project that marked her third collaboration with Bercot, following “Standing Tall” and “On My Way.”īefore her stroke, Deneuve had a hectic shooting schedule. “After my accident, I simply went back on the shoot of Emmanuelle Bercot’s film because it was important for me to finish it I thought it would bring me some satisfaction.” She adds, “But the ending was, for me, very difficult. It puts in perspective things that are very hard to see.” She adds, “A lot of people are anxious and depressed.”ĭespite her health struggles, Deneuve was determined to finish Bercot’s drama, in which she plays a mother whose son (Benoit Magimel) is dying of cancer. When we face a crisis like this, we realize how we live and how people in different countries live - and cope with disease - and how some die because there is no other choice. “All of a sudden, people started looking at the truth of life. The pandemic is something that marks us terribly, that we didn’t see coming in this shape,” she says. So it’s best that it’s being done now - I wouldn’t want to go to a festival if I couldn’t stand up, if I couldn’t walk up the stairs,” says Deneuve, who suffered a mild stroke in 2019 while filming a scene for Emmanuelle Bercot’s “Living.”Īlthough she’s notoriously guarded about her private life, Deneuve suggests that the past few years have shaken her. “It’s like a double-edged sword: It’s recognition for work done throughout the years, but at the same time it’s often given too late.
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