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
Acting is a way of living out one's insanity.
Firstly I did it in this huge theatre in Avignon, then to smaller places, then bigger places. You have to change the volume of the voice, give more or less. The way you have to relate to space makes it like sculpture
There are many different ways of being funny. I'm not sure that there's so many different ways of being dramatic.
Going through this musical experience really helped us to understand the core of the film.
When you come to do the film, it is not the time to wonder why you do it. It's just how to do it
But theatre is always a difficult experience
Some roles are easier to choose, some roles are more difficult because they are more daring. Sometimes you have to dare.
But on the whole, nothing requires unbearable energy for me, it's just a normal thing
I never wondered whether I should be a stage actress or a movie actress
Perhaps Europeans are a bit more skeptic whereas Americans are more believers.
Once you have made the decision to do the film, once you have identified the desire and all the deep and personal, intimate, artistic reasons why you want to do the film, then it's more a matter of how to do things
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
For an actress there is no greater gift than having a camera in front of you, listening to the most beautiful music in the world and just being looked at!
If on paper one would say, "You're gonna spend three weeks in Death Valley," you say, "No, I'm not going to be able to." Very often, very quickly you forget about it.