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The difference between the extras here and in France is the French extras read books. Actually, they hide the book and pretend that they’re acting. Here (in Hollywood), you can see everybody wants his break.

Berenice Bejo

In France, it’s always about life, normal life. We always stick with these realistic things. So when French people are dreaming about American movies, they go and see the thrillers, and Westerns, and science fiction, huge entertaining movies.
BERENICE BEJO

Dream Fiction People
I’m okay. Nobody’s bothering me. Everyone’s very kind, and very polite. I don’t feel like my whole life changed.
BERENICE BEJO

Changed Changing Kind Life
Here, you go to the supermarket and you have wipes to clean your hands before shopping. No, we don’t have that in France, but we recycle.
BERENICE BEJO

Hands Shopping Wipe
Of course, when you work on a character, you try to understand her. You feel that everything she does has a reason.
BERENICE BEJO

Character Doe Trying
I guess I’m the perfect young lead actress. I’m not Chloe Sevigny – I’m not really a character actress. Some actors have “character” faces.
BERENICE BEJO

Character Chloe Perfect
Even in the very beginning when she would bump into George Valentine and people would start taking pictures of her, she never thought “I’m with George Valentine. I need to get a picture with him.” She’s like “oh that’s funny. Everyone’s taking pictures!”
BERENICE BEJO

Needs People Valentine
For us, as actors, and even for the director, it gave us a sense of authenticity to what we were doing because we were talking about Hollywood and we were in Hollywood.
BERENICE BEJO

Directors Hollywood Talking
I really enjoyed being Peppy Miller. She was an amazing character and her energy followed me everywhere. When I talk about her I want to be her again.
BERENICE BEJO

Character Energy Want
I feel very honored and special really. You can’t imagine, to arrive at the Oscars when you arrive so low, and you can’t go further than the Oscars.
BERENICE BEJO

Imagine Oscars Special
I read Gloria Swanson’s autobiography just because I wanted to know what it was like in the time.
BERENICE BEJO

Autobiography Gloria Wanted
Ever since the movie premiered at Cannes, I’ve had a sudden surge of scripts and interest.
BERENICE BEJO

Cannes Interest Scripts
Right now I’m the most famous silent movie actress in the world and I want to keep that for me. So I hope there’s not going to be any other silent movies.
BERENICE BEJO

Actresses Famous Hope World
The difference between the extras here and in France is the French extras read books. Actually, they hide the book and pretend that they’re acting. Here (in Hollywood), you can see everybody wants his break.
BERENICE BEJO

Acting Book Differences
Sometimes we had to improvise. I hate to improvise because I felt like I couldn’t find words.
BERENICE BEJO

Hate Improvise Sometimes Words
I tried to find a character and how I would be an American actress in the 30s. But if this was a talking movie [The Artist], I’m sure she would be exactly the same for me.
BERENICE BEJO

Artist Character Talking
I spent hours on the internet looking at how glamorous actresses winked and how they would put their hand on their waist, and I was told to look at how they would walk in a room and how her body takes place of everything.
BERENICE BEJO

Body Hands Looks

The difference between the extras here and in France is the French extras read books. Actually, they hide the book and pretend that they’re acting. Here (in Hollywood), you can see everybody wants his break.

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The difference between the extras here and in France is the French extras read books. Actually, they hide the book and pretend that they’re acting. Here (in Hollywood), you can see everybody wants his break.

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