Charlotte Gainsbourg
Charlotte Gainsbourg
Charlotte Lucy Gainsbourgis a British-French actress and singer. She is the daughter of English actress Jane Birkin and French singer and songwriter Serge Gainsbourg. After making her musical debut with her father on the song "Lemon Incest" at the age of twelve, she released an album with her father at the age of fifteen. More than twenty years passed before she released three albums as an adultto commercial and critical success. Gainsbourg has also appeared in many films, including several...
NationalityFrench
ProfessionMovie Actress
Date of Birth21 July 1971
CountryFrance
I don't have tons of scripts where I don't know what to choose and I'm trying to calculate. It's either I read something and I have an impulse to do it, or in meeting someone, I want to work with them, but it's always been very obvious.
Before I started touring, I worked with someone to help me, even physically, because I was so shy. And you can't be shy going onstage. So I had to push myself in a direction that wasn't myself.
The English was really my mother, it was never me. Being the daughter of my father, I always felt very French.
I didn't want to change my personality onstage, but I still had to build some kind of ego to be able to go up there. If not, there's no point.
I went on television and I wouldn't say a word; I feel so stupid when I watch them again.
I'm a very shy person towards my intimacy and private life.
Wanting to do it was much more powerful than the fright.
I thought people wouldn't take me seriously if too much acting was involved in the singing. But now I love the idea of mixing everything together.
Girls can wear jeans, cut their hair short, wear shirts and boots, 'cause it's okay to be a boy, but for a boy to look like a girl is degrading.
I'm desperate to work again. I've often had those periods, but two years was the longest.
In France I'm very private, I don't like talking about my life, and I imagined that people would think that I'm now an open book.
I came to understand that people come and see you because they like you. They don't come to throw things at you.
You don't even need the director's judgement. It's too much.
I hope I'll consider my next part, having learnt from this one.