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
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
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
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.
Acting is a way of living out one's insanity.
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
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.