Sjuttioåriga Nathalie Baye is still one of France’s hardest working movie stars. She can look back on four decades of skådespelarliv where she worked with many of the big names like Francois Truffaut, Jean-Luc Godard and Bertrand Tavernier. In recent years she has uppvaktats of new hot registjärnor including Xavier Dolan.
” What I really like about this profession is that every time I play a role – whether it’s a dark drama or a spattig comedy – so it’s like I get an extra life. It is very strange, inexplicable and sometimes bizarre. A small miracle, works every time, ” says Nathalie Baye on the phone from his hotel room at the Jardin du Luxembourg in central Paris.
she has the desire remain even if she has become kinkigare with the script and the opinion of the directors that are not pleasant. In premiäraktuella ”Protectors,” rejoins she, for the third time with ”of Gods and men”director Xavier Beauvois, a cooperation that already has been very successful. With the last film ”Young cop” (”Le petit lieutenant”, 2005) got the Baye France’s finest skådespelarpris, César, for his interpretation of a enstörig mordutredare.
the New kostymdramat ”the Protectors”, which is set during the first world war, is her extra warm on the heart. In the film Baye the aged bondmoran Hortense who rips the dog in order to save the family’s fine farm, and the farm while her sons are at the front. She is a powerhouse who will do anything for the soldiers to have something to return to after skyttegravsinfernot.
– There are countless French films about the first world war, but extremely few who have a female perspective. I like to Beauvois, has chosen a very original theme, ” says Baye.
“My character in ”the Protectors” sums up so many of the women who performed acts of heroism in the quiet on the home front during the first world war but who have never received any monuments raised over them,” says Baye angrily.
up the eyes of the war’s forgotten women when she recorded speakerrösten to the two-part documentary, “Elle were a guerre” (approx. ”She was in the war”) who went on to produce at full capacity, the Arte for a few years ago. The documentary taught her enormously as she didn’t know about the war.
” It shook really about me. If the men finally returned, so were their women, who are often including new technologies, back to the periphery – without getting much thanks, ” says Baye.
– All the knowledge I had in this movie. But then acted the role of, above all, hard work. I have always liked to study foreign environments at work, this was, for example, I had to learn how to plough with oxen in the past. It was really heavy. He did not directly take a few insomningstabletter after the inspelningsdagarna, laugh Baye.
I got to do scenes that almost made me sick because they were so loaded
She believes that Hortense is a ”great role”.
” She is one of the characters I felt the most for throughout my career. A dogged fighter who sacrifice so much for the men’s sake. I got to do scenes that almost made me sick because they were so loaded, ” says Baye.
Motherhood is a central theme in the film where Hortense has a tense relationship with his biological daughter Solange. The role played by Nathalie Bayes own daughter, the anticipated Laura Smet, whose father is the recently deceased local and nationalikonen Johnny Halliday.
Laura Smet plays the daughter in ”the Protectors”. Photo: SplashNews
Nathalie Baye and Laura Smet – which during the year received a lot of headlines since she tried to contest his father’s dodgy will – have acted towards each other earlier in the a section of the satirserien ”Call my agent!” which takes place in kändisvärlden.
” It was both scary and fun. What was most difficult was that I would play myself, while of course, it is a twisted version of me that you see. But it was very fun to play against Laura, we laughed a huge amount. It became a fun family dinner out of it.
their first film together, was considerably more demanding, with scenes filled by hard bargaining.
– When you go into their role so they forget almost that they know each other. It was awkward, especially for Laura, was that her role was written and became much darker. Her character would have had a small child, but it didn’t work with the baby, who would be in the recording. The child screamed as possessed each time she would hold on to it, so Beauvois made her childless and much more bitter. But she did of the challenges enormous good, I say this not as her mother but as a fellow member, declares she.
Baye says she usually manages to refrain from coming with the good advice, that her daughter is not asked for.
– the Trick with children is to say things in a hidden way so that they don’t even really notice that you have said something, but think they have come up with it themselves, ha ha.
also Read: Review of ”the Protectors”
