Sophie Marceau
Sophie Marceau
Sophie Marceauis a French actress, director, screenwriter, and author. As a teenager, Marceau achieved popularity with her debut films La Boumand La Boum 2, receiving a César Award for Most Promising Actress. She became a film star in Europe with a string of successful films, including L'Étudiante, Pacific Palisades, Fanfan, and Revenge of the Musketeers. Marceau became an international film star with her performances in Braveheart, Firelight, and the 19th James Bond film The World Is Not Enough...
NationalityFrench
ProfessionMovie Actress
Date of Birth17 November 1966
CityParis, France
CountryFrance
I have been making films for the last 25 years and have played characters created and inspired by others, and I often enjoyed myself doing that.
But the privileges that one has enjoyed and exploited can sometimes turn against you: nobody thinks of you as a director, you are always an actress.
Sometimes you choose the wrong actor, he could be the best actor ever, but he's not cast in the right part then it doesn't work.
Sometimes I don't understand what he says because he's so American, ... He improvises a lot. I don't, so we complete each other very well.
You know I could stop working as an actress and still be doing promotion on movies I did ten years ago. And I don't like to do the same thing forever.
She's a woman who has to sell her baby to get some money. She comes from a very low social class,
On love rival Isabelle Adjani - 'I'm eight years younger, 3 inches taller and I've got boobs!
On Leonardo DiCaprio: What is he - eleven? thirteen? I could play his nanny.
It is personal, very honest, intimate, I would say, but sometimes the story, the anecdote, can be more or less mine - or not mine.
What's nice is that when you have to put a wig on, funny costumes, You know it's like being a little girl playing with accessories.
When you work with a director like this you don't have a real challenge because he makes the work very easy. He knows what he wants as a director.
There is no doubt that this film is autobiographical, but at the same time it also tries to portray an ordinary couple in a language that everyone can understand.
Genre aside, I'd like to make a film about people.
All I will say is that I'm playing a lot of different roles that, to be honest, are more interesting and demanding than any I've played before.