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August 3 - August 10,2003 |
Always a Beauty but never a Beast
French actress Juliette Binoche turns gauche in Jet Lag but her talent shines through
By Angela Baldassarre
Originally Published: 2003-07-20
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Juliette Binoche
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One of the world's most beautiful and talented actresses - French-born Juliette Binoche -- has appeared onscreen as nothing less than stunning. But in Daniele Thompson's Jet Lag she is so gauche and so tacky, that it takes some effort to find those dark, deep-set eyes beneath the false eyelashes and heavy make-up.
Binoche stars as Rose, a chatty beautician flying to Acapulco to escape an abusive relationship. When she borrows a cell phone from a stranger (Jean Reno) at the Paris airport, she discovers that there is hope in life after all.
Winner of a best actress Oscar for her role in Anthony Minghella's The English Patient, Binoche has starred in Philip Kaufman's The Unbearable Lightness of Being, Krzysztof Kieslowski's Blue, and, more recently, Lasse Hallstrom's Chocolat.
Tandem talked to 39-year-old Juliette Binoche when she was in Toronto.
This is an involving role because you and Jean Reno are pretty much in every frame of the movie in a large airport. Was it fun?
"That's what I wanted. It was a lot of fun. The airport part was most difficult for me because there was this anguish about doing something new. Also, the monologue because it was all on cell phones, it was not much dialogue. I wanted desperately to work with Jean and it was kind of frustrating that we could not get into a room and work together. So I kind of had to be patient while we were at the airport. Also to be intimate and yet be in a big crowd and a big space was strange somehow and I felt lost. But that was perfect for the role somehow because of the way she (the character) is trying to hold things together. But after that, when we started working in a room, it was like a big release. After that it was just about playing and having the pleasure of playing."
What did you think when you saw yourself all made up like that?
"Some people said that when they saw me they thought of a very rich woman or very bourgeoisie. She is hiding so much that you can invent a lot of stories into one's character.
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