![]() ![]() The 29-year-old French Algerian actress may be a new face for American audiences, but her career’s been on a steady rise since her debut in “Les Bienheureux,” for which she won the Orizzonti Award for Best Actress at the Venice International Film Festival in 2017. (She pulls out a pair of worn ballet slippers as evidence of her dedication.) The movie is directed by Mounia Meddour, who also cast Khoudri in “Papicha.” The actress won the Cesar Award for most promising actress at Cannes in 2020 for that role. Khoudri’s been doing a lot of dancing lately - she spent the past year learning classical ballet for her role in “Houria,” which she’s filming in the South of France. So we danced together a lot.”Īdrien Brody, Bill Murray and Lyna Khoudri at Cannes. “When you meet Bill in the hotel, you are sure you will dance. “Bill loved to dance, so he always had his mini speaker,” says Khoudri. The cast also ate dinner together, watched movies together and danced together. versus France with Chalamet to getting career advice from McDormand. (They were all gifted a pair of La Charentaise French slippers upon arrival - Anderson is clearly committed to specificity in legwear.) “We had a lot of time to work and have discussions,” says Khoudri of the extra time spent with her costars offset, adding that discussions ranged from comparing growing up in the U.S. The movie’s cast lived together in the same hotel for the duration of filming. “For Wes is also the first step I think he needed to find the costume to work on the character.”Īfterward, Anderson tasked Khoudri with watching a list of classic French films, including “Le Pont du Nord” by Jacques Ribette and Henri-Georges Clouzot’s “La Vérité.” “The personality of my character was really inspired by Brigitte Bardot in ‘La Vérité,’” Khoudri notes. The actress recalls a pivotal conversation that hinged on deciding what socks her character should wear: “It’s maybe too short, too long, too black, too white,” she remembers of the debate. It was very cool.įollow us for more entertainment coverage on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and Letterboxd.“For me, if you don’t find a good costume, you don’t find your character,” says Khoudri, who worked in close collaboration with costume designer Milena Canonero and Anderson. We could take them to watch them in our room and then we could talk about it with him. In the hall of our hotel, there was a table with a lot of movies that Wes put there. And Juliette’s helmet and scooter were inspired by ‘’Le Pont du Nord’’, clearly. It’s also a very special atmosphere, I wasn’t familiar with Jacques Rivette. For Juliette, I used ‘The truth by Clouzot’, with Brigitte Bardot, who plays a revolted young woman, and ‘’Le Pont du Nord’’ by Jacques Rivette with Pascale Ogier. There were some movies by Renoir like ‘The Rules of the Game’, and a lot of movies from the New Wave. ![]() Wes also gave me references from French movies for my character. So I took on these manifestos, where there’s a group of people that come together to defend a cause that they have in common. I read The DaDa manifesto as well, that really resonated with me when I was a teenager. I actually found a manifesto that I sent to Wes because it really spoke to me. I found a lot of articles, essays, manifestos. I did a lot of research about students in 1968 in France. What kind of research did you have to do? Did you read certain books, or were you inspired by movies or even documentaries? It’s a very cultural city, so we were very welcomed there. There is the Angoulême International Comics Festival, the Angoulême Francophone Film Festival. But this city is used to welcome big events. They all knew where the hotel was situated, there aren’t that many hotels there. But the people of Angoulême were very welcoming and not oppressing at all. ![]() He was very much okay with it, he was talking with them, signing autographs. ![]() It was very special! It was special to see Bill walking down the streets of Angoulême to go buy some chocolat, and seeing fans running after him. How was the atmosphere in Angoulême? What did it mean to you to film this huge film in this French city with this international cast? ![]()
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