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 Pimps
are pimps, whores are whores, transvestites are transvestites, drugs are
not drugs actually, it was lactose.
My
father is best known for his light comedies, and I'm best known for
crazy bad guys with short tempers.
Well
actually I will change this kind of stuff but for the moment I have just
played the devil! It’s a movie called Sheitan, which means the devil
in Arabic. It’s from a young French director, named Kim Chapiron, who
is 24-years-old. And then we’re going to do two movies in a row about
the life of Jacques Mesrine, who was the public enemy No.1 in France
during the ‘70s. A crazy man with an interesting life.
I
started to make movies and wanted to be an actor because of the
movies...in Italy in the sixties or in America in the seventies and I
thought that those people working together over and over again,
exploring what they had to do in common was very inspiring.
So,
I've always dreamed about this. So, to work with Monica, all those
people, and Monica is not French, but she's been around for a while now,
but yeah, I like it. Honestly, I think that it's a very nice way to make
movies, you know. If you can make movies that you can go and eat with,
it's pretty cool.
I
grew up on their music, both of them – Xzibit
and the Wu-Tang Clan (for RZA). I got rappers in my family; my brother
is a rapper in France. His name is Squat. I was happy to work with them
and, in fact, I was even more impressed by Xzibit
than I was with Jennifer
Aniston.
The
day after I had my licence to drive I made Paris/Nice at 230 km/hour.
A
lot of things, but I think it's just my nature, I would say. I've always
comfortable with this kind of part.
I
think I'm actually more vulnerable than people imagine.
Yes
but that’s the way we did it. I wasn’t raping Jennifer
Aniston’s character. We were having a sex game in front of Clive
Owen. There was nothing dark or anything like that on set.
Yeah,
I think that there is something saying, I say the line, that revenge is
a human right. I don't think that it's a human right, but it's a normal
reaction.
I
actually love the movie because I think that the movie has such a
subversive attitude. I'm really proud of it, but as a character and as
an actor, I do like this.
No,
I'm very proud of it. It wasn't made to make money. We wanted to make an
object that people would see and study. The film makes you realise what
you can lose when you think everything is OK. If Gaspar wanted to work
with me and Monica again, we'd do it.
I
think that it's a very bleak and very dark statement, but I think that
in the particular case of this movie, it's provocative, and it's a way
to push the audience to realize what they have before it's too late. I
don't take it as a truth in itself. I think that it's more of a way to
provoke people.
Oh,
well you know, all European media is not the same. I'm sure that like in
England, they can be much more bothering than in France, for example. In
Paris, it's okay. We have very separate lives when we're working,
working wise. I think that it's fine. on the mediatisation of his
marriage with Monica
Bellucci.
I'm
a little angry in life.
I'm
not going to tell you the story of my life, but sometime, I did, and
it's not the best thing that I did. When I resent something, I try
to…I don't think that it's the solution to anything.
Until today I would have
said, 'get into a plane and jump out with a parachute.' Now that I've
done it, I would say 'make love for the last time hoping that it is my
wife who is at my side.'
Her
best asset of actress - and woman too! - is not her beauty, but her
intelligence. Her intelligence of people and of things. She is very
perspicacious, very attentive with the others and has a great faculty to
put them at ease. To work with her, I would say, to put besides any
concept of couple, that it is as when I find Mathieu (Kassovitz):
together, one goes more directly to essence. Plus, she is an incredible
hard worker.
She
has a curiosity of cinema which is rare. She is moved by the directors,
she is very listening... In general, I recognize it, I am interested
more in the actors than in the actresses - is already well to recognize
it! But her, she has something that few actresses have. A manner of
exceeding reality, of making dream. I like to look at her playing. - On Monica
Bellucci
I've
known Gaspar for a while, both as a director and as a party-goer. I
didn't think he'd use me and Monica because he'd want to use real people
rather than actors.
Well
honestly, the rape scene is hard to watch but you don’t see much and
when you think about it, it’s not a rape scene. It’s a couple having
fun in front of someone else.
Anyway
he came up to us one night at a party and asked if we wanted to make the
movie that Tom
Cruise and Nicole
Kidman just missed making with "Eyes Wide Shut". Initially
he said it should be a pornographic movie, but we told him there was no
way we could do that. Then he came back and said it would be a story
told backwards, like Harold Pinter's "Betrayal". We raised the
money in two months and shot the film within five days.
It
was a crazy experience because it was totally improvised. Gaspar gave us
a guide of just five-to-ten lines for each scene, and we didn't know how
long the scene would last. It was very tiring.
You
have the feeling of stage fright because you don't know what's going to
happen, and you have to be ready for anything. And it's hard to build up
a character, because you don't have any material to work with. You have
to let yourself go as much as you can, and you have to use the reality
around you.
Oh,
well you know, all European media is not the same. I'm sure that like in
England, they can be much more bothering than in France, for example. In
Paris, it's okay. We have very separate lives when we're working,
working wise. I think that it's fine.
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