Berenice Bejo
Berenice Bejo
Bérénice Bejois a French Argentine actress, who played Christiana in the 2001 film A Knight's Tale and Peppy Miller in the 2011 film The Artist...
NationalityArgentinian
ProfessionMovie Actress
Date of Birth7 July 1976
CityBuenos Aires, Argentina
character white black
A character is never entirely white or black, there's never entirely right or wrong. You have to realize sometimes you face something, and then you change your mind, or then you realize you were wrong.
shopping hands wipe
Here, you go to the supermarket and you have wipes to clean your hands before shopping. No, we don't have that in France, but we recycle
talking actors directors
For us, as actors, and even for the director, it gave us a sense of authenticity to what we were doing because we were talking about Hollywood and we were in Hollywood
scripts cannes interest
Ever since the movie premiered at Cannes, I've had a sudden surge of scripts and interest
mom thinking parent
My parents were not pushy or anything like that. I think my mom was still expecting me to be an astronaut, but now she is very happy that I'm not doing that.
book differences acting
The difference between the extras here and in France is the French extras read books. Actually, they hide the book and pretend that they're acting. Here, you can see everybody wants his break
character perfect faces
I guess I'm the perfect young lead actress. I'm not Chloe Sevigny - I'm not really a character actress. Some actors have "character" faces.
cute different flappers
I connected very much with all the work of Joan Crawford because she started as a flapper. She used to dance and sing and she was very cute. She had something that was so different from what she is at the end of her life and she started in the silent movies and then went into the talkies
character artist talking
I tried to find a character and how I would be an American actress in the 30s. But if this was a talking movie [The Artist], I'm sure she would be exactly the same for me.
hands body rooms
I spent hours on the internet looking at how glamorous actresses winked and how they would put their hand on their waist, and I was told to look at how they would walk in a room and how her body takes place of everything
character thinking talking
I think the approach of the character for us is the same in a silent movie as in a talking movie because we had balance, we had lines to learn
unique way looks
Marlene Dietrich for the way there was something so unique about her - the way she entered into a frame and everybody looks at her and the way she winks and looks up.
two ipods giving
Maybe I'll put my iPod in two minutes before. But truly, I've listened to actors say that they loved to listen to music before a shot, and I really understand that now because it puts you in the mood and gives you energy
hate sometimes i-hate
Sometimes we had to improvise. I hate to improvise because I felt like I couldn't find words