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Sometimes we had to improvise. I hate to improvise because I felt like I couldn’t find words.

Berenice Bejo

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

Cannes Interest Scripts
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 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
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
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
As an actor, you think you have to go really far and deep and cry and yell to be good in a scene. Sometimes that’s not the point.
BERENICE BEJO

Actors Sometimes Thinking
My parents were not pushy or anything like that. I think my mom was still expecting me to be an astronaut, but now she is very happy that I’m not doing that.
BERENICE BEJO

Mom Parent Thinking
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 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
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
A character is never entirely white or black, there’s never entirely right or wrong. You have to realize sometimes you face something, and then you change your mind, or then you realize you were wrong.
BERENICE BEJO

Black Character White
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
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 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
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
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

Sometimes we had to improvise. I hate to improvise because I felt like I couldn’t find words.

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