Isabelle Huppert
Isabelle Huppert
Isabelle Anne Madeleine Huppertis a French actress who has appeared in more than 100 film and television productions since her debut in 1971. She won the BAFTA Award for Most Promising Newcomer for The Lacemakerand the César Award for Best Actress for La Ceremonie. She is the most nominated actress for the César Award, with 15 nominations. She was made a Chevalier of the Legion of Honour in 1999 and was promoted to Officer in 2009...
NationalityFrench
ProfessionMovie Actress
Date of Birth16 March 1953
CityParis, France
CountryFrance
It was sometimes 60 degrees [Celsius], but it's very strange, cinema makes you forget reality most of the time. You are more concerned about your inner feelings, or your work.
I never wondered whether I should be a stage actress or a movie actress
But on the whole, nothing requires unbearable energy for me, it's just a normal thing
For an actress there is no greater gift than having a camera in front of you, listening to the most beautiful music in the world and just being looked at!
If on paper one would say, "You're gonna spend three weeks in Death Valley," you say, "No, I'm not going to be able to." Very often, very quickly you forget about it.
I think being an actress is more how to cope with the fact that you can't do anything else than to express a talent. It's a way of being untalented for anything
I don't know if you ever say to yourself that you want to be an actress. It eventually becomes a social function - you are an actress and you make a living out of it, but at the beginning it's more a matter of how to survive, or how to exist in a certain way
The Greeks already understood that there was more interest in portraying an unusual character than a usual character - that is the purpose of films and theatre
Before I do a play I say that I hope it's going to be for as short a time as possible but, once you do it, it is a paradoxical pleasure. One evening out of two there are five minutes of a miracle and for those five minutes you want to do it again and again. It's like a drug
But someone like Claude Chabrol tries to make a connection between the society in which we live and the social reasons which make monsters out of some people
Once you have made the decision to do the film, once you have identified the desire and all the deep and personal, intimate, artistic reasons why you want to do the film, then it's more a matter of how to do things
In a very complex way, things have improved in the dramatic field. Before you had the good and the bad and you couldn't mingle them. Now it's more ambiguous
Perhaps Europeans are a bit more skeptic whereas Americans are more believers.
I think that a sense of humor of an actor comes through most of the time. Maybe some actors have less than others, and I have it, I think. It's my nature.