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The new interview is up on Elle France (the translation comes from Google)

Alicia Vikander's new bet​

Explosive in Lara Croft, Oscar winner in Danish Girl, sublime in Vuitton muse, Alicia Vikander is now betting on auteur cinema. While filming under the direction of Olivier Assayas, reunion in Paris with a chic girl.
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After a year and a half without filming due to confinement, Alicia Vikander confides his pleasure to finally find a tray. She is preparing to play Irma Vep, the vampire-like heroine of the eponymous film released in 1996, and which has become cult over the years, which Olivier Assayas is now adapting into a mini-series. “It's been too long! »Enthuses this hyperactive, which runs on average two to three feature films per year. The Oscar-winning actress, one of Hollywood's most respected, increasingly chooses atypical projects. She thus defends, without complaining about it for all that, a "policy of authors", as they said at the time of the New Wave. Closest to creators, whether they are filmmakers or that other Frenchman who has inspired him since his beginnings, when he was still a stranger: Nicolas Ghesquière, the artistic director of Louis Vuitton, of which she is one of the main muses.


IT. You are preparing to shoot the lead role in Olivier Assayas' series, "Irma Vep". What interests you in this project?

Alicia Vikander: I've been friends with Olivier for five, six years… When I'm in Paris, we often meet. I am above all a great admirer of his work, I think he is a beautiful person. We met just before the first lockdown, and he told me that he was asked if he would consider adapting his feature film "Irma Vep" in series. We discussed it, it's been years that we wonder what project we could work together, this moment seemed to have come. It happened in such a natural, obvious way. I am happy, honored, that he offers me to be part of this adventure.


IT. How do you approach your character, Mira?

AV My character is quite different from that of the feature film, in which Maggie Cheung played her own role, this extraordinary Chinese actress, who arrived in France to participate in a vampire film. In this new version, I'm not playing my own character, I'm playing an American actress. It will be interesting to put myself in the shoes of someone who is trying to integrate into European culture, which is so different from his own. "Irma Vep" calls on many actors, artists, sometimes close to Olivier for a long time. It is a series that celebrates art and cinema.


IT. You've had lead roles in over twenty feature films, but never in a TV series of this stature. What more does a series offer for you?

AV The TV series allows you to explore your character in a deeper, more subtle way. Granted, it's a mini-series, but when you play for eight hours instead of two, it gives you the opportunity to develop a character in a lot more detail. Plus, there isn't just one lead role, there are several equally important characters who mirror an increasingly accurate image of who you play as. I am very happy to work in this long format.


IT. We spoke to each other last summer, during confinement, you told me that you felt more and more at home in Portugal, where you have been living for a few years ...

AV I particularly enjoyed being there these last months, I took long walks on the almost deserted beaches , I fell asleep every evening listening to the sound of the waves. Yes, I now really feel at home in Portugal… But it's strange how much time I've spent here and there in my life. This "home" has above all to do with my relatives. I have a group of very dear friends in Portugal, and they make me feel at home there.


IT. After several blockbusters, you choose more and more author projects. You worked with the young director Justin Chon on “Blue Bayou”, today you collaborate with Olivier Assayas…

AV It is not a choice that I make to work only for independent cinema from now on. But I have great respect for the authors. The fact that I can be on set and feel that not only I have the director in front of me, but also the person who had the story in mind from the start, it makes this actor-director relationship even more collaborative, and open to potential changes. Because filmmakers-authors naturally have even more confidence in this story they want to tell. So it's simpler, more obvious, they are imbued with their own universe and it's a very beautiful thing when they open the door of their world to the team and the actors. Also, as an actress, I put myself completely in the hands of the director.When this one is also the author of the scenario, I feel in a safe place.



“I'm in Paris for five months, and everything has just reopened, it's fantastic. I'm going to go see theater, opera and dance, my other passion ”




IT. You also play the main role of "Blue Bayou", which will be presented at the Cannes Film Festival in the selection Un certain regard…

AV This is also the story of Justin Chon, which he wrote and which he interprets as an actor. His first film impressed me, it was made with barely $ 200,000. I loved the script, it's a very different role from anything I've played until now. Although this takes place in Louisiana, in an American context, this story about adopted children is universal. How, because of their particular situation, can they find themselves threatened with deportation in the country where they grew up? This is happening everywhere unfortunately.


IT. Can you tell me about your work with Nicolas Ghesquière and the Louis Vuitton house?

AV I am quite incredibly lucky, I am the privileged witness of how Nicolas is constantly reinventing himself. Even during confinement, he imagined a modern woman, suddenly forced to stay at home, or rather confined to the extremes, the interior or the wilderness. It is the world itself that speaks in his creations, they capture the spirit of the time, the Zeitgeist, with discreet political or cultural references. With each new season, he brings this new dimension which makes his creations so relevant, and sometimes even ahead of our time. I am really impressed by this collection that we had not been able to see until now, there has not been a parade due to the pandemic. I am a big fan of patterns and embroidery,very present in this collection. I took the time to go over all the details.



IT. You started out on stage, I imagine you missed the performing arts a lot during this funny time.

AV Yes, but I'm here in Paris for five months, and everything has just reopened here, it's fantastic. I'm going to see theater, opera and dance, my other passion. And then I will improve my French.


IT. Other than that, what are you looking forward to doing in Paris?

AV It is the most beautiful city in the world for many people, Paris will always be Paris. I can't wait to take long walks, taste my morning croissants, visit all the museums and galleries. I lived completely immersed in nature, which was a great experience, but I can't wait to rediscover urban life, and there is no better place than Paris for that.
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Thanks for the translation. :smile: It's always nice to see her talking about her work.
I love the last campaign. But they have wasted so many opportunities with her covers. I like some editorials (the one for Net-a-Porter was beautiful),ad campaigns,but I still prefer her fashion work, photo shoots before her contract,even without the big names who are now involved.

Blue Bayou clip



www.vanityfair.com

Justin Chon Confronts a Broken American Dream in ‘Blue Bayou’

In his first interview about his buzzy Cannes premiere, the acclaimed filmmaker says it “represents what America feels like and looks like.”
www.vanityfair.com www.vanityfair.com

Chon focused on grounding elements to paint that picture—a Southern milieu surrounding an Asian American man as he becomes conscious of the alienation he feels from his neighbors, or a straining marriage, with his wife (Alicia Vikander) raising her young daughter from a previous marriage while several months pregnant. (Vikander, who won an Oscar for The Danish Girl, has never been better. Chon cast her based on her 2010 screen debut in Pure: “I knew she was more than capable of playing a blue-collar, strong, Southern woman. I thought it’d be so dynamic. And she just disappears.”)
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Morgane said:
Thanks for the translation. :smile: It's always nice to see her talking about her work.
I love the last campaign. But they have wasted so many opportunities with her covers. I like some editorials (the one for Net-a-Porter was beautiful),ad campaigns,but I still prefer her fashion work, photo shoots before her contract,even without the big names who are now involved.

Blue Bayou clip



www.vanityfair.com

Justin Chon Confronts a Broken American Dream in ‘Blue Bayou’

In his first interview about his buzzy Cannes premiere, the acclaimed filmmaker says it “represents what America feels like and looks like.”
www.vanityfair.com www.vanityfair.com
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Great to see you again :wave: and yes I agree about her covers. They rarely get them right, the best of which was a long time ago was as you said, the Net-a-Porter cover/editorial.

Thanks for the clip. I know the film will be @ Cannes, but I have no idea on what day its premiering?
 
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August_Lee said:
Great to see you again :wave: and yes I agree about her covers. They rarely get them right, the best of which was a long time ago was as you said, the Net-a-Porter cover/editorial.

Thanks for the clip. I know the film will be @ Cannes, but I have no idea on what day its premiering?
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:hugs: Thanks to everyone for updating the thread!
It's premiering on Tuesday:
m.festival-cannes.com

Festival de Cannes - International film festival for more than 75 years

The Cannes Film Festival is an international film festival. The 76th edition will be held from May 16 to 27, 2023.
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