Dumbo isn’t a total flop, but it’s definitely underperforming at the box office, and it’s definitely not critically acclaimed. There’s a lot of talk about how Tim Burton has really lost his mojo. Has he? I don’t know. But I am starting to wonder if Eva Green really is the best “muse” for him, you know? Eva has a big role in Dumbo, and she gave some interviews to promote the film, like this cover interview she did with ES Magazine last week. Eva is an unconventional, gothic, un-Hollywood person, which… okay, it takes all kinds, and I find her interesting and beautiful. But maybe she’s not the person for a Disney film, you know? Anyway, some highlights from her ES Magazine profile:
On her goth cred: “I have embraced my Gothic-ness, because everyone says that’s what I am. Black is just concretely very easy to wear. It makes you thin. And you can be a dirty girl and it won’t show.”
Whether she’s dating anyone: ‘Such a boring question! I will remain mysterious.’
Moving from France to England: ‘I wanted to be my own person and go to another country. I loved London — I studied there [at Webber Douglas drama academy] before I moved there — and I bought a little flat in Primrose Hill, my agent looked after me and I began to make friends. I can’t say Paris is ugly but it lacks trees and London has that village feel. People are less judgemental in London and I love the British sense of humour.’ When she got back to Paris the day before our meeting she could ‘smell the fires’ set by rioting gilets jaunes, whom she mentions with an eye-roll. She hopes Brexit doesn’t mean she has to leave Britain. Moving to LA was never an option: ‘I went there for The Dreamers and I hated it. I hated meeting people. It was the cliché of the plastic smiles and the dead eyes and “we love you” but there is nothing behind it.’
On being assaulted by Harvey Weinstein: ‘He was like a god. He could make you, destroy you. You think, maybe something will change — I could win an Oscar! So the first time you meet him you feel privileged. But what happened [to him] is a miracle. There is justice. But you know, there are a***holes everywhere, in every field.’
She’s worried about ageing: ‘There is always that insecurity. You depend on the desire of people. I read interviews with women going [smug voice], “Oh, I’m soooo confident now I am in my 30s or in my 40s, I have found myself.” Well, actually, pfft, it is difficult for an actor, or for any woman, ageing. You think, my God, will people still like me? I’ll be in my 40s soon but I always feel like I am 15.’
I didn’t realize that she just lives full-time in England now – I always thought she probably had an apartment in Paris and only went to England for work. But tell me, Europeans in the know: is London really less judgmental than Paris? Are British people less judgy than French peeps? Hm. As for what she says about ageing… it reminded me of what Kristin Scott Thomas said several years ago, that even though she never put much stock in people’s compliments when she was younger, as she got older, she felt invisible without that kind of attention.
Photos courtesy of WENN, cover courtesy of ES Magazine.
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