Berenice Bejo
Berenice Bejo
Bérénice Bejois a French Argentine actress, who played Christiana in the 2001 film A Knight's Tale and Peppy Miller in the 2011 film The Artist...
NationalityArgentinian
ProfessionMovie Actress
Date of Birth7 July 1976
CityBuenos Aires, Argentina
character white black
A character is never entirely white or black, there's never entirely right or wrong. You have to realize sometimes you face something, and then you change your mind, or then you realize you were wrong.
character trying doe
Of course, when you work on a character, you try to understand her. You feel that everything she does has a reason.
character thinking talking
I think the approach of the character for us is the same in a silent movie as in a talking movie because we had balance, we had lines to learn
character artist talking
I tried to find a character and how I would be an American actress in the 30s. But if this was a talking movie [The Artist], I'm sure she would be exactly the same for me.
character perfect faces
I guess I'm the perfect young lead actress. I'm not Chloe Sevigny - I'm not really a character actress. Some actors have "character" faces.
character want energy
I really enjoyed being Peppy Miller. She was an amazing character and her energy followed me everywhere. When I talk about her I want to be her again.
fell love needs sing talk twenty
I fell in love with Crawford because when she was twenty or twenty five, she would dance and talk and sing and do the things that Peppy's character needs to do.
It's a once-in-a-lifetime event for all of us, something like this.
cell liked movies phone prepare seen since
I never thought about how I didn't have a cell phone or I'm in 2011. I was just so happy to be able to be a character in the 30s and there are these actresses that I really liked in the 40s, 50s and 60s in American movies that I've seen since I was a little girl. But you don't really think like that when you prepare for a role.
dream people fiction
In France, it's always about life, normal life. We always stick with these realistic things. So when French people are dreaming about American movies, they go and see the thrillers, and Westerns, and science fiction, huge entertaining movies.
thinking actors cry
As an actor, you think you have to go really far and deep and cry and yell to be good in a scene. Sometimes that's not the point.
autobiography gloria wanted
I read Gloria Swanson's autobiography just because I wanted to know what it was like in the time.
world want actresses
Right now I'm the most famous silent movie actress in the world and I want to keep that for me. So I hope there's not going to be any other silent movies.
hate sometimes i-hate
Sometimes we had to improvise. I hate to improvise because I felt like I couldn't find words