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...most successful singers, too - Gainsbourg, 38, can sit wherever she likes. Since making her screen debut as a 13-year-old alongside Catherine Deneuve in the 1984 film Paroles et Musique, she's racked up 37 movie credits, including critically acclaimed turns in 21 Grams and Antichrist, which earned her a Best Actress Award at the Cannes Film Festival last year. But despite these successes, she's still known primarily as the daughter of Jane Birkin, the gamine English model and actress, and Serge Gainsbourg, France's beloved singer-songwriter. When Serge died in 1991, the nation went into mourning...
...part of her recuperation, Gainsbourg also accepted a role in Danish director Lars von Trier's controversial thriller Antichrist, which she filmed in between sessions with Beck. In the movie, she plays a woman who descends into madness after her infant son dies: she bangs her head against a toilet, masturbates naked in a forest and mutilates her own genitals. "The film was so dramatic and so extreme that it took all my thoughts away," she says. "It helped me recover." Von Trier still struggles to reconcile her raw performance in the movie with her soft-spoken manner in person...
...songs on IRM are tinted with sadness and longing. Did filming Lars von Trier's graphic thriller Antichrist in between sessions with Beck influence your music? I was in quite a desperate mood after the shoot. I had been isolated in Germany filming for two months. To suddenly go from a place where I had the right to be hysterical and in a full crisis to being normal again was a weird change. It was fun for me to be able to talk to Beck about the shoot and how extreme it had been. At the same time I felt...
...said that you accepted the role in Antichrist to help you forget your medical trauma. The script required your character to do extreme things like mutilating her genitals. Did those graphic scenes worry you? I felt more naked crying and howling than I did showing my bottom...
...know how you could rehearse that. [Laughs.] I just had to let go and think of nothing. During the first take I was trying to be a little delicate. Lars only gave me one indication. He said: 'Can't you do it faster?' [Laughs again.] (Read "Antichrist: Von Trier's Porno Horror Rhapsody...