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.
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.
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
I think movies say a lot [about real life], even more than theater. It says a lot about the invisible, that movies are so fascinating. The camera lens is like a microscope that goes beyond the surface. It's like you're exploring a secret, so you explore the director's secret, you explore the actor's secret, and therefore you explore the universe's secrets.
I'm very happy. But when this sort of thing happens, it's best to have a certain detachment.
The story is very cruel and very sharp,
She's really quite talented, ... It was like she had been making movies all her life. There was no naivety or clumsiness.
It's not difficult; it's not a big effort. But it's a big effort for me to pursue what I want to do, so that's the effort. When I act, it's just a relief. It's just a respiration.
It's more like breathing for me to act,
Venice brings me luck. There is no great role without a great director, so from the bottom of my heart I thank Patrice.
One would expect an actress to stand onscreen mostly as a caricature. If she would say, "I'm selling shoes," you would believe her. She says it and it creates this fiction, non-fiction perception of the film. People believe it because she says it. If she said, "I'm a butcher," people would believe it too, I think.
It really helps you to go through difficult situations by just thinking about it as being a big amount of work which you have to solve how to do. For example, I don't feel very inspired when I act, I just act. That's it
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