“I always enter roles the same way”

We readily imagine her as distant, yet she is a warm woman who interrupted the press officer who was introducing us with a “but we already know each other”, pronounced in this hushed, inimitable voice. The meeting with The New Republic was organized last August in an island of greenery in Angoumois to discuss The richest woman in the worldthe film by Thierry Klifa which opened the Francophone Film Festival.

Initially, the look is masked by dark glasses… and for good reason: “There’s a gentleman over there who keeps taking pictures of me while I’m talking and it annoys me. » At the moment when the importunate becomes discouraged, the eyes are revealed. When you have been immortalized by Nan Goldin, Avedon, Cartier-Bresson, Doisneau, Lartigue or Helmut Newton, you do not offer your image to the first lens that comes along….

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