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Audrey Tautou |
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Coco Before Chanel |
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Interview by: Izumi Hasegawa |
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Sep 10, 2009 |
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Audrey Tautou - Coco Before Chanel
Q1: How much information that couldn't have been filmed of her... Were there pictures that you found of Coco and the beginnings of her life?
AT: Because of the part of her life that was chosen to be depicted in this film, there was actually not a lot of information out there. And also, what she said about this period was often full of lies and she wanted to hide a lot of the facts. So, one of the instrumental pieces was the biography written by Edmonde Charles-Roux who had done an exhaustive sort of investigation for 5 years to get to the bottom of who Coco Chanel was in this period. And then, there were other books that I read about this period and I could tell from the different books who believed in the lies that Coco spread about herself and who didn't. And, in the case of Edmonde who wrote the definitive biography, she dispelled many of the lies that Coco herself was trying to set out.
Q2: Audrey, since you were playing an actual person, ...
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