![]() ![]() She then hit the international scene in 1981 playing opposite Depardieu in La Femme d’à Côté (The Woman Next Door) directed by Truffaut. She studied international relations at the elite Sciences-Po university in Aix-en-Provence and was 29 when she made her first film. I always try to find that same passion.”Īrdant, daughter of a cavalry officer, grew up in Monaco, where her colonel father was a friend of Prince Rainier. I didn’t hear his anger, I heard his passion. Zeffirelli would get very angry when you didn’t do what he wanted, but for me it meant they believed in what they were doing. What I learned from them was this alchemy that I never completely understood. Watch Fanny Ardant in trailer for Truffaut’s The Woman Next DoorĪrdant says the magic of Truffaut, Zeffirelli and Polanski “was their passion. Everything else – money, power, glory – just fills the hole left by an absence of love.” Whether we are happy or not, love is the essential. She knows she will die, but she is not afraid to love or show she loves … People say I am always exaggerating, but the only thing interesting in life is love. She is like a pressure cooker you know will explode. It follows, therefore, that she is a huge fan of Fosca, Passion’s ailing and sickly heroine, who has an obsessive love for the army captain Giorgio. Today, the star of more than 60 films, 30 theatre productions and 20 television dramas has chosen to espouse her carpe diem philosophy and her belief that the only thing of value in life is love. (“I wasn’t even born when the film was made … but the journalist didn’t check.”) She even convinced one interviewer that she was the baby in the pram that rolls down the Odessa steps in Battleship Potemkin. She has a well-deserved reputation for saying things to shock. I smile, and I pretend.”Īrdant is delightfully friendly, polite and anxious to please yet simultaneously exudes a sense of imminent chaos and calamity, not to mention deliberate mischief-making. I could cry from morning to night but I pretend. I say to myself: ‘I will think about this later,’ then I get on with the moment. Noticing a look that suggests this might be a little melodramatic, she adds: “I do suffer profound blackness and despair, but I am an actress. Photograph: Marie-Noëlle Robert/Théâtre du Châtelet I think if I did I would cry and cry a torrent of tears and never stop.”Ī scene from Stephen Sondheim’s Passion directed by Fanny Ardant at the Châtelet theatre in Paris. I have never seen a psychoanalyst, though. I have a great black veil that falls over my head. Ardant, 66, continues to fizz like freshly opened champagne. The conversation has moved on from the delights of non-conformity and putting “cretins” in their place via the pleasure of working with Gérard Depardieu, Franco Zeffirelli, François Truffaut – with whom she had the second of her three daughters – and Roman Polanski. She is laughing, her eyes sparkling, her hands – fingers heavy with chunky silver jewellery – are flapping, wringing and pushing hair from her face. The French actor is lounging in the foyer of the Châtelet theatre in Paris where she is directing her first English-language musical, Stephen Sondheim’s Passion. ![]() And not only on stage or in front of a camera. ![]() Fanny Ardant says she is very good at pretending. ![]()
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