the full english translation by Tango_down of evagreenweb.com:
She puts down her look of ember on the world of the cinema with passion and modesty. Disturbing, the ex-james Bond girl, Dior’s muse of perfume Midnight Poison, enthusiast of dark movies, clouds the issue with a certain pleasure. Motor !
In the Normandy’s bar, in Deauville, Eva Green, wearing a dandy costume by Dior, consults the wine card. She hesitates between a “Chablis” and a “Saint-Emilion”. She chooses finally the red one, which is her colour. The voice surprisingly deep, the body frail and the blue Hollywood look explain easily that they recruit her to play opposite 007. It’s from this ambiguous feat that she tries to free herself.
In stubborn worker who rehearses non-stop with her coach, in so well mannered young girl of an exquisite and cheeky French actress – alias Marlène Jobert–, in lustful expatriate not much impressed by the cruelty of Los angeles, the frenzy of London or the intensity of New York. In Normandy, she can see her roots, the family home, the smells of iodin and hedged farmland. Not vamp for two pence, childish, on the road to glory, she opts for ultra-dark scripts.
In Cracks, where she portraies a kind of tormented and lesbian “Blanche Dubois”, in Franklyn, which transforms her into a video director enthusiast of arty suicide.
Reserved, clown, perfectionist, ambitious and modest: Bound girl made in “Pays d’Auge” (French region) excels in clouding the issue. Meeting.
- Madame Figaro : You ‘re only 28, and already have a rather mapped out career. What are the strong points ?
- Eva Green : I had chance, in 22 years’old, to film with a mythical movie director, Bernardo Bertolucci. I loved the Last Tango in Paris. When I learnt that I was going to work with him in “Innocent, the Dreamers”, it was ecstasy. This movie is the nicest experience of my life, a kind of love story. I trusted in him in 100 %, even for the daring scenes. He was very paternal, and, on filming, there was a true osmosis. Everything was idyllic !
- With Casino Royale comes your second chance
- Yes ! A prodigious change. The Bertolucci’s movie wasn’t a success, but this James-Bond was a huge one. I became interesting for the press and “bankable” for studios.. I suppose that I’ll be consequently Bond girl for life.
- Suddenly, your public extended. Children and teenagers know you…
– And identify me on the street, that’s true. I see this as a normal movie. And then I don’t consider myself as a sexsymbol. I‘m the exact opposite of the sublime Ursula Andress coming out from water in white bikini and captivating Sean Connery. No, my own girl is on her guard, rather destroyed, a bit distrustful, and doesn’t try to seduce 007.
– Do you feel French, English or American?
– I cloud the issue : I live in London, but my heart is in Paris. Architecture and concentration of beauties in this city are unsurpassed.
– Why to live in London, in that case ?
– I often went there, teenager. I love the young side, punchy and village of London. And then, I needed it to cut the umbilical cord.
– Do you protect yourself mentally when you work your tormented roles ?
– Yes, but I think pretentious to say that we can be engulfed by our character. And then, when we have experience from theatre, it gives a certain distance. I profoundly think that I’m 99 % of chance and 1 % of talent. That’s true, there are so many people in drama lessons who are gifted and don’t reach where I am. There are so much injustice and fools in this job.
- Fools ?
– Los angeles, it’s horrible, I hate it. They only talk about money. In fact, I’m not fooled, I’m even a bit cynical.
– Is it because Marlène Jobert, your mother, explained you the hidden side of things ?
– Rules of the game changed, but she’s also rather cynical. Hollywood, it’s bad for soul. This city oppresses me, it makes me being on edge. When I go there, I have a week of rendezvous with the pros of studios. We have impression to be animals who come and go in front of them. They are people who work in their offices from 7 am until 9 pm, who don’t have life. In Europe, everything is really more relaxed and more human.
- Your mother probably admires your international career
– Of course, she’s proud of it, but she’s a worried, anxious mother, very maternal, who wants to know all about what’s happening. She worked in a more instinctive way. She arrived on a film set, knew her text and improvised with the situation. For my part, I work at the point of being crazy.
- Are you a fashion victim ?
- Not too much. On my last filming, I was always dressed with jogging suit, other girls arrived dressed with dressmaking or vintage. They looked at me telling themselves : well, it’s this sportswear person who represents Dior, the best of sophistication.
– Do you want to start a family ?
- No, I don’t feel ready at all, I already have difficulties to be in charge of my dog ! I don’t know if it’s my trick. It would be necessary to be settled in, it’s going to take time, I believe.
– Are you the sporty type ?
– Not enough. I make a footing twice a week, in Regent Park. In New York, I newly discovered the sumptuous spa and massages of Mandarine Hotel. Child, I let off steam on tennis courts. If I would test sport boxing, it would be to give blows, not to receive.
– Can we see you on dance floors until daybreak ?
– Never ! I hate going out at night. I sleep badly. Even when I was young, I often woke up at four o’clock. Today, I get to sleep early and I get up in daybreak. Basically, I’m not jet-set, I’m an old woman young and reasonable. I would like to have more madness or eccentricity in life. One day, it’s sure, I’ll let my self go.
– On vacations, are you common or bling-bling?
– Common, beach wrap-flip-flop, one or two T-shirts and a bathing suit.
– In your iPod: neofolk music or neodisco music ?
– Musics of movies relax me : those of the movies of François Truffaut, Jean-Luke Godard and Wong Kar Wai. And the « 5th Symphony » of Gustav Mahler.
– Your night : dancing queen or beauty sleep at 10 pm?
– Beauty sleep at 11 pm on the dot and a little lavender essence on the pillow.
– Justin Timberlake meet you on the beach, he stops, looks at you. What do you say to him ?
– « Sing me one of your tubes, darling. » He’s is so much cooool.
– Your knack to look sexy coming out from water ?
– To look like Daniel Craig (007) in black monokini !
– Your knack to move away the paparazzi ?
– To clean my nose (in french : “se curer le nez”, which means to put your finger in the nose trying to catch something…). I don’t attract them, I’m not Angelina Jolie.
– Your favourite sport : to read scenarioes at the edge of the swimming pool, to make Swedish physical education, to count calories ?
– To read scenarioes is a sport which can make lose weight.
– You organize a great party on the yacht of a friend. You invite : Johnny Depp ? Edgar Morin ? Dany Boon ?
– None of them, but my favourite novelist: Haruki Murakam
– In my summer suitcase, I can’t go without…
– My contact lenses and all bottles which go with, my bra in black lace Dior, the cream “Or de vie” by Dior, the sun block of Avène, scratched black trousers, etc etc
source: EvaGreenWeb.com