Audrey Tautou is just as beguiling on the phone as she is on the silver screen.
Spoke to the actress recently, with only a modest assist from a translator, about her new French comedy “Priceless.” My Washington Times interview explores how she picks movie roles. Essentially, she waits until a director gives her a call. Must be nice.
That slacker attitude wouldn’t work well in the U.S., but Tautou works steadily overseas. Seems there’s no shortage of directors looking for her phone number.
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K 07.09.08 at 5:58 am
Next time you talk to her, you might mention that cigarettes in movies are now verbotten in American cinema, without some kind of warning.
If she want’s to be photographed shooting up some H or snorting cocaine, then it’s no problem.
cftoto 07.09.08 at 2:12 pm
The war against cigarettes on film is pretty frightening — and you make a great point that anything else goes.
Wonder when our techies will start editing cigs out from classic films … or has that started already?
Dagnabbitt 07.09.08 at 6:43 pm
I *hope* that that has not occurred, although I would not put it past certain gatekeepers…cigarette smokers have become (post-) modern-day lepers, and I for one, empathise with them, as the anti-tobacco lobby critiques seemingly everything - one otherwise favorable critic of “The Fellowship of the Ring” took to task McKellen’s Gandalf regularly smoking a pipe, and went off-topic to lament a friend’s passing from lung cancer. Sad, I agree, but still - it.is.a.movie. I advise the always-more-practical Europeans thusly: smoke away, and show some individuality.
~ Dagnabbitt
jic 07.10.08 at 4:18 am
Since when have the Europeans been more practical?
cftoto 07.10.08 at 4:22 am
JIC - I imagine European filmmakers don’t have the budgets that their US peers do, so they have to be a tad more practical. Just an educated guess …
jic 07.10.08 at 7:28 pm
I thought that he meant that more generally, but maybe you’re right.