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Berenice Bejo

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Bérénice Bejo is a French-Argentine actress best known for playing Christiana in A Knight's Tale (2001) and Peppy Miller in The Artist (2011).

Quick Facts About Berenice Bejo

Notable works: Actrices et acteurs au travail

About Berenice Bejo

Bérénice Bejo is a French-Argentine actress best known for playing Christiana in A Knight's Tale (2001) and Peppy Miller in The Artist (2011). Her work in the latter earned her a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress and won her the César Award for Best Actress. For her performance in The Past, she won Best Actress at the Cannes Film Festival in 2013 and was nominated for a César. She plays Alice Guy-Blaché, the first female film director, in the upcoming six-part drama series Alice.

Biography source: Wikipedia

Quotes by Berenice Bejo

I guess I'm the perfect young lead actress. I'm not Chloe Sevigny - I'm not really a character actress. Some actors have…

Actors

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It's a once-in-a-lifetime event for all of us, something like this.

Event

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I tried to find a character and how I would be an American actress in the 30s. But if this was a…

Actresses

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Here, you go to the supermarket and you have wipes to clean your hands before shopping. No, we don't have that in…

Clean

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My parents were not pushy or anything like that. I think my mom was still expecting me to be an astronaut, but…

Astronaut

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For us, as actors, and even for the director, it gave us a sense of authenticity to what we were doing because…

Actors

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I'm okay. Nobody's bothering me. Everyone's very kind, and very polite. I don't feel like my whole life changed.

Bother

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I feel very honored and special really. You can't imagine, to arrive at the Oscars when you arrive so low, and you…

Feels

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Right now I'm the most famous silent movie actress in the world and I want to keep that for me. So I…

Actresses

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Even in the very beginning when she would bump into George Valentine and people would start taking pictures of her, she never…

Bumps

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I connected very much with all the work of Joan Crawford because she started as a flapper. She used to dance and…

Connected

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People recognize me, I have scripts, and auditions. And I meet great people

Auditions

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Of course, when you work on a character, you try to understand her. You feel that everything she does has a reason.

Character

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As an actor, you think you have to go really far and deep and cry and yell to be good in a…

Actors

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A character is never entirely white or black, there's never entirely right or wrong. You have to realize sometimes you face something,…

Black

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In France, it's always about life, normal life. We always stick with these realistic things. So when French people are dreaming about…

American movie

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The difference between the extras here and in France is the French extras read books. Actually, they hide the book and pretend…

Acting

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Marlene Dietrich for the way there was something so unique about her - the way she entered into a frame and everybody…

Look up

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Maybe I'll put my iPod in two minutes before. But truly, I've listened to actors say that they loved to listen to…

Actors

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I read Gloria Swanson's autobiography just because I wanted to know what it was like in the time.

Autobiography

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I never thought about how I didn't have a cell phone or I'm in 2011. I was just so happy to be…

Able

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

Felt

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Ever since the movie premiered at Cannes, I've had a sudden surge of scripts and interest

Cannes

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I spent hours on the internet looking at how glamorous actresses winked and how they would put their hand on their waist,…

Actresses

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I really enjoyed being Peppy Miller. She was an amazing character and her energy followed me everywhere. When I talk about her…

Character

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