I didn't go to acting school, so it was great to be able to rehearse for a month or two, to workshop, and be with a director who even gave me acting exercises.

I was very attached to my family when my father died. I was 19. I was about to go live with my father right when he died, so it was very intense.

I didn't go to acting school, so it was great to be able to rehearse for a month or two, to workshop, and be with a director who even gave me acting exercises.

I wasn't getting the responses I hoped for. You can't protect yourself from other judgments.

I think it's a legend that Lars von Trier is such a tough person to work with. I really didn't experience any of that. Of course, he's difficult in the sense that what he asks for is difficult. For my part in Antichrist, I suffered a bit. But it was the part - it wasn't him. He wasn't cruel. On the contrary, he was very kind. You know what you're up for when you read the pitch.

You think that being a girl is degrading, but secretly, you'd love to know what it's like, wouldn't you?

In France I'm very private, I don't like talking about my life, and I imagined that people would think that I'm now an open book.