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
If I seem detached or distant, it's because I think this is a more exact reproduction of life, where you hide as much as you show. When I see a scene in which feelings get loudly exteriorized, I say to myself, 'Well, at least this never happens to me.' I very rarely go through this type of expression. Most of the time things are hidden or at least much more subdued.
But theatre is always a difficult experience
I did a film very quickly, and then a lot of work for television, and then I did stage work.
Some roles are easier to choose, some roles are more difficult because they are more daring. Sometimes you have to dare.
When you come to do the film, it is not the time to wonder why you do it. It's just how to do it
My mom's a Catholic, and my dad's a Jew, and they didn't want anything to do with anything.
I like to take these unusual characters and then make them as normal as possible, because we all know that the tragedy and the abnormal always hides itself behind the normal
The choosing of a role is so difficult for me. That's the real challenge: to choose the role, not to do the role. Once you've chosen them, the process is much easier.
Firstly I did it in this huge theatre in Avignon, then to smaller places, then bigger places. You have to change the volume of the voice, give more or less. The way you have to relate to space makes it like sculpture
Even for the most difficult scenes, and there are difficult scenes in the film, and because Michael Haneke is such a great film-maker - I think a great film-maker is not only being inspired, but how to do it, how to make it as real as possible, knowing that it's not real
But it wasn't just a technical approach towards the piano, studying the music for this film was also a way of approaching the soul of the film, because the film is really about the soul of Schubert and the soul of Bach
There are many different ways of being funny. I'm not sure that there's so many different ways of being dramatic.
For me, making films is like being on vacation, it's a nice walk. But theatre is like mountaineering. You never know whether you're going to fall off or make it to the top
A film is the reflection of the soul of its creator,