Juliette Binoche Interviews
Juliette Binoche Interviews
Last updated 25 april 1996.

About her last movie,Un Divan a New York:
It was time to chang image: always so serious, sad, committed. In this movie I'm a french woman who goes to New York and exchanges her Paris apartment with one in this city. He's William Hurt, and is a psicho-analist. In New York I find right his divan and his patients. It's been a therapeutic movie. William is an adrenalinic perfectionist, the kind of actor that repeats scenes without stopping and wants much concentration. He immediatly showed me how much we were distant. I come from a kind of school that expectially teaches you to be coscentious, but a New York i was light, with no anguish. For the first time I wasn't scared by the objective. I think it's been Olivier influence: he can stay apart, happily relaxed until a moment before the ciak.

An interview to the magazine Psychologie:
Being an actress is forget yourself, to radiate charm. To give something that was brought you: maybe the grace, the strength and the last element, the one that brings a fragrance to your mind: the absence. Because making movies is like a ship in the storm: one at the rudder, the others attentive; if just one drowns, all drown. Movies are open doors, and at every door I change character and life. Every door is a question. The answer is to live it up. And I live for the present, always. I accept this risk. I don't deny the past, but it's a page to turn.

About Damage and Irons:
There were misunderstandings with Irons, I didn't forgive him. Malle seemed to be intrested other things but the film. I were in pieces, I left the set, came back... often I foud myself screaming dirty words in the nobody's land, behind the studios. Maybe it was me, maybe I was hard... I've always been. But Malle was trying to chang my image! He considered it too direct and wanted something of more sophisticated. He deeply hurt me: I even don't make up, sometimes. It was living with aliens with the duty of pretending love. It's terrible when you have to pretend desire to a man you hate.

About Blue and Kieslowski:
I had to hurt myself by scratching a wall for the despair after losing my dears in the crash at the beginning of the story. A prothesis was required. I said to Kieslowski: "I can do it with bare hands" and he looks at me and bursts out: "Not at all. You don't make a movie to hurt yourself". He surprised me: it was the first time that somebody were afraid for me on the set. I thought he was coming from a different world. Then I risked a bronchitis cause the air currents in the pose theatre. But working with that man has been an authentic pleasure.


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