THR: You said a few years ago that you were going to retire from acting at some point in the near future. Tautou: I would like to play a part as completely crazy as Bette Davis was as Baby Doll. THR: So what other kinds of parts would you like to play? Is there any book adaptation you’ve wanted to make, or another type of role you haven’t done? But apart from that situation, it’s impossible for studios to give a main part to an almost unknown French actress, because the idea of bankability is very powerful here. I did Da Vinci Code simply because there was an audition and the studio was not scared to give the female lead part to a French actress. THR: So what if someone said we want you to be in the new Star Wars movie? It’s more because I find them more interesting in an artistic way. ![]() But I think it’s a question of creativity, and sometimes when you don’t have the pressure of the commercial results, you can allow yourself to be more creative and less formatted. THR: Do you find doing small, interesting movies more pure? If I can have an interesting part in a smaller movie, I would be very happy. I think it’s a very tough industry and I don’t want to fight for that, I don’t want to work for that. I know it has a huge aura and in 70 percent of cinemas in the world. ![]() It’s not something that excites me, it’s not something I’m impressed with. I really don’t dream of becoming a huge Hollywood star, and I don’t have the fantasy of doing some huge commercial blockbuster I, II, III, IV movies. Tautou: No, it’s not a priority and it’s never been a fantasy, either. ![]() THR: You did Da Vinci Code here, and French actresses have made it big in America - Marion Cotillard, for one - so have you ever wanted to become a more Hollywood actress? It seems like it’s not a priority to you. And also, I’m not choosing my part because I want to prove anything or something to somebody. I’ve always felt very free, as I’ve had different proposals and thankfully, very quickly, I had this confidence that I could trust the imagination of directors. I never consider Amelie as a problem, so I never try to avoid her, so I keep working independently of what the audience could think about me. So do you try purposely to take roles that are much different from that character? So the role most people know you for here is Amelie. ![]() THR: You’re very well-known and famous in France, but we only get some of the movies that come from France, and even then, they’re only in so many theaters. It’s great for me to have the opportunity, that some director thought about me for something very different from the thing I did and for something I would not come up for immediately. Tautou: Well, it’s always fun when you have an interesting character and when it’s complex, and when she has an amazing destiny - even if Therese is, of course, a darker woman and much more mysterious and dry. THR: While watching the movie, I thought, is this really the same person as Amelie? That must have been fun. There’s no discussion, and it’s a nightmare, I think, for her. You have to be formatted for a certain life. The Hollywood Reporter: A character poisoning her husband usually isn’t all that sympathetic, but given the time period and her situation, it’s easier to understand her motivations.Īudrey Tautou: I found the character sympathetic because she is the victim of the system and those conventions, and the monster in the story, it’s not Therese, it’s all the violence and hypocrisy and influence that don’t let her live the life she wants. Directed by the late Claude Miller, the film is the second adaptation of the novel - Emmanuelle Riva starred in the role in 1962 - and closed last year’s Cannes Film Festival. As a woman from a wealthy landowning family who suffers in an arranged marriage, she plots to poison her husband - only to be caught and suffer even further. In her new film, an adaptation of the famed 1927 novel Therese Desqueyroux, she couldn’t be any more different from the character that put her on the map.
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