Julie Delpy screamed and bolted the door, a special opening for any interview. "The door isn't locked, is it?" she shouted to a bewildered publicist. Fortunately, this is not the case. Delpy explained that if the door was locked after we climbed to the top of a Toronto skyscraper, she would want to jump off. "That's what every dizzy person feels," she said. "They want to jump, but it's not the height that they're afraid of, it's the jump itself."
She looks like she's blaming those who are waist-level with us. glass balcony. "If I didn't jump, I wouldn't be afraid of heights. But the decision I'm going to jump makes me so excited to die. It's not that I want to die, it's just, why don't you drive me crazy for 30 seconds? That's enough time for us Get up and jump down.”
When I tried to rationalize her fears with more dangerous examples of catching a train or crossing the street, the 45-year-old retorted: “Yeah, the train tracks are really tempting. No, because most people avoid you, you don't have to die." She paused meaningfully, "Death is always attractive."
The Paris-born star has something to fear. but she never lost her radiance, even after she said something like "maybe I killed myself and I don't know how it happened...you might know it's because I'm mentally ill, self-harm, or I There's a gun, and I just want to know what it's like to put it in my mouth."
She suspects the strange thoughts are inherited from her father, the theatre director Albert Delpy, who climbed to Paris The top of Notre Dame tries to jump down. Just before jumping, he was stoned in the head by his friend to no avail. It sounded like a play her mother, the avant-garde theater actress Mary Pillay, once played.
Like Celine in Before Sunrise, Before Sunset and Before Midnight, Delpy's life is full of stories and oddities. In 1985, she started her acting career - she made several appearances in Jean-Luc Godard's "The Detective" as a bright young teenage girl. And in 1986 Leo Karax's "Bad Blood" played a bad-tempered girlfriend Lise. But her ambitions ran higher than the enthusiasm of the French Revolution. Even when she won worldwide recognition for her performance in The White, Blue, White and Red Trilogy, she decided to go to New York to study filmmaking.
Her storytelling ability attracted Linklater, so he cast her to star in Before Sunrise, and she was also offered a screenplay for the sequel.
As a director, she found that in the films Two Days in Paris and Two Days in New York, she had something in common with directors Linklater and Woody Allen. And her works—the 16th-century historical drama "The Countess" and the family drama "Skylab" have earned her a little international recognition.
Audiences love Delpy as a female Woody Allen, starring an elusive neurotic in this intriguing modern story. In addition, in her new film, she once again took on the role of screenwriter, director and starring. In Lolo, she played Violette. Vilolette, a 40-year-old fashion event organizer, meets a sure-footed boyfriend (played by Danny Byrne) at a girls' festival in the south of France after years of hiatus. As the IT staff all moved to Paris, their relationship grew even hotter over her mischievous son.
"I always say I'm neurotic, I'm a little bit depressive," she said when I brought up her resemblance to Ellen, "I like actors who are depressive. In fact, I've played roles that are more I'm more melancholic myself. Because in real life I smoke and do wrong things. I think I'm looking for jerky and neurotic characters in movies because I find them funny and enjoyable."
She It also overturned the old tune of the past. At the opening of the film, Violeette is a joker and a huntress who vows to catch men.
"I want to describe two women who have gotten to the point where they're tired of life and cynical. They swear and don't give a shit about them. These 40-something women treat men as commodities. Some sense. Men are offended by the fact that these women are so direct.”
She told me her favorite book is Georges Bataille’s erotic novel, The Story of the Eye. “The French talk about sex more easily than any country. We are in a country where even the bourgeoisie does it, everything is transparent. For example, an American president who has an affair means their career is over. But for For the French president, it's just the beginning of his career, unless he rapes an American he's in trouble. We have the Marquis de Sade and other writers, it's part of our culture."
Violeete in her glossy At work, she can do it with ease, but at home, she lives in a mess. "That's what I want to have, when one's so bright at work, and living in a mess at home," she added, "I think one day, someone like me who is a little bit nervous and insecure in life. It must be cool to be successful in the world despite being anti-social. To be successful in life, that's pretty amazing!"
Delpy has a young son, Leo, with her ex-boyfriend, a German film composer. Born Marc Streitenfeld. Leo was born in January 2009, and Delpy loved him so much that he had the idea to direct a film about mother and son.
"Just two days after giving birth, the doctor said to me, 'You know one day, you have to let him go' and it freaked me out. Even though I knew my parents let me go when I was 16 , and I moved to America when I was 19."
She had to start working on her new role because she had too many genre roles. "I've played a lot of stereotypes over the years, women who are hysterical, women who are emotionally unstable, women who can't be film directors. Even just yesterday, there was a cameraman taking pictures of me and Danny Byrne Shi said: 'I want to take a picture of the director and the (female) actor', which means I'm excluded - like I can't be a director at all."
Writing and creating has largely taken her beyond her career as an actress and musician. In 2003 she released her self-titled debut album and was writing "Countess". She hasn't acted much since 2007, apart from a brief cameo in Avengers: Age of Ultron.
Starring in The Avengers looks like a well-crafted joke. "Here's the thing: I was talking to my agent that I was 44 and could play a villain in a superhero movie. Because once a woman turns 35, it usually turns out to be a bad woman. Then the next day he called me and said
, 'Guess what, Marvel just called me! You gotta play that role.' So I got this little role that I didn't even know I could do. No good."
Next, she will star in Todd Sorenz's new film "Dachshund." "It's a refreshing change," she said. "It's
really fun to work with him, he's very persistent. He's a little paranoid about the way he sees things, a little obsessive about details, which isn't always the case with actors. Okay. But it's great to be able to work with him as an actor instead of a screenwriter." The
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