And a fifth installment of the adventures of Asterix and Obelix, this time in China! “Asterix and Obelix: The Middle Empire”, which hits theaters on Wednesday, brings together, as for the previous films of the little Gaul, a skewer of French stars. Guillaume Canet is behind, and in front of the camera, alongside Gilles Lellouche, Marion Cotillard, Vincent Cassel, Audrey Lamy, Jonathan Cohen, Laura Felpin or Manu Payet… The opportunity to wonder, in this episode of the podcast ” Wait a minute ! » : Who are the French actors and actresses who are movie stars, those who enjoy international notoriety? For what reasons ? What differences to access the rank of mega stars, such as Tom Cruise? To talk about it, Caroline Vié, journalist specializing in cinema at 20 minutes.
What magic potion to become an international star?
Assuring a small role in this film, actress Marion Cotillard is, according to the journalist, the biggest star of the feature film, because she enjoys international notoriety, playing in many American films. But the greatest French actress of today is, according to Caroline Vié, Léa Seydoux: “She turns in many quite remarkable American and French films. He is someone who has a solid career, who has talent, contrary to what the jealous people say. For me, he is the real French star”.
What potion would Léa Seydoux have taken to be this big star? “She has a lot of talent. (…) I refuse to think that it’s because she’s the daughter of a great producer. That it helped her at first, no doubt, but she wouldn’t have stayed if she didn’t have the talent and the professionalism necessary to continue working, because staying [dans le métier], it is complicated. It represents an image of French sophistication, with this ability to transform itself if necessary. There is certainly a luck factor too…”, list Caroline Vié. In the history of the last sixty years of French cinema, Catherine Deneuve, by her extraordinary career, is, according to critics, the greatest tricolor star. Nothing to do, however, with the only planetary megastar… Namely the American Tom Cruise. Listen to the full interview with Caroline Vié, for free, in the audio player above.
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