Charlotte Gainsbourg Says ‘I Don't Need to See My Movies Anymore' and Fighting for Acting Roles Is Better Than Getting Offers: ‘You Feel Like You Own It'
Gainsbourg is a Cannes veteran, having won the festival's best actress prize in 2009 thanks to her acclaimed role in Lars von Trier's 'Antichrist.' In her Kering conversation, moderated by Variety's Angelique Jackson, Gainsbourg admitted that she originally 'had difficulties with Cannes' when she would attend as a young actor.
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'My first best memory is with Lars von Trier,' Gainsbourg said. 'I was so proud to have done that film and present it here. It was very special to get that prize.'
'Antichrist' started a collaboration between the actor and the director that would go on to include 2011's 'Melancholia,' 2013's 'Nymphomaniac' and 2018's 'The House that Jack Built.' Gainsbourg fought hard to get a meeting with Trier when he was casting 'Antichrist,' which marked a change of pace for her career as she often let directors come to her with acting offers instead.
'The only projects I fought for were…. going to meet Lars, and thinking that he hated me,' Gainsbourg said. 'I didn't do a scene. I was just meeting him, and going back I thought I'd never get this. This was something I really wanted. Also the film I did called '21 Grams' I really wanted it. I was so pregnant. I went to Los Angeles and the part was a woman who couldn't get pregnant and there I am with my belly.'
'It makes me so proud to have those challenges,' she continued. 'When you get everything just because someone wants you, it doesn't make you believe you can do it. It makes you believe you always have to wait for a person to validate you. When you fight for something, you feel like you own it.'
With all eight episodes of 'Étoile' now streaming on Prime Video and the new Anderson opening in theaters at the end of May, Gainsbourg is having a prominent moment in her career. Not that she wants to watch her projects.
'I doubt a lot about myself,'Gainsbourg said. 'I don't want to see my movies anymore. I have so much fun acting and forgetting about myself and being with other actors. That's my fun. To see the results is not something I want. I don't need to see it.'
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