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If Eva Green has become Hollywood’s femme fatale du jour, at least she won’t need help with a translation of the job description. She was born and raised in France, but had a bilingual education in England and the American University of Paris. Her clipped British tones came in handy as Vesper Lynd in Casino Royale.

But largely her screen roles since, having made her acting debut in Bernardo Bertolucci’s controversial The Dreamers in 2003, have consisted of queens and witches and a recurring theme: “Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned.”

In Tim Burton’s gothic farce Dark Shadows Green certainly has fun playing kooky angry witch, Angelique.

The lusty sorceress has cursed Johnny Depp’s Barnabas Collins into vampiredom and left him entombed for 200 years. The film, which shows what happens when Barnabas is exhumed in 1971 and reunites with the immortal Angelique, is a remake of a 60s television series of the same name, a horror soap which had a cult following which included Burton and Depp.

“This role was a gift from heaven,” says Green. “Angelique is absolutely bonkers, and is undoubtedly one of the best roles I’ve ever played. I got really lucky with this film, and to work with Tim Burton was the ultimate fantasy of mine. He’s a genius.”

One of the funniest moments in Dark Shadows is the over-the-top sex scene between Depp and Green.

She laughs, “We had to have stunt people do most of it and they got a lot of bruises. We just did the nice bit, rolling against a wall, that kind of thing. It was fun and so surreal. It wasn’t like a sex scene in any other film where you’re actually naked. In that scene we felt like we were in the circus.”

Dark Shadows marks her return to the big screen after playing the scheming half sister of King Arthur in the short-lived television series Camelot. Green plays mysterious and villainous roles with a vivid authenticity.

“It seems to be my destiny. I can’t get away from it,” she acknowledges. “But I’m going to be bored soon if I keep playing the femme fatale.”

In person, she’s no less formidable than the women she portrays onscreen.

Dressed in skin-tight black leather pants, a black shirt, her hair is dyed black (which she’s been doing since the age of 15), and she wears dangerously high-heeled Christian Dior shoes. She jokes, “These shoes are like weapons. They could probably kill somebody.”

Leaning back in her chair, she says, “I know I seem very dark to other people, but I don’t see myself that way. I mean, yes, I have black hair and I love wearing black, but that’s mainly because I can’t be bothered wearing colour and working out what to wear,” she says.

She laughs. “My mother always says, ‘Your hair is too black to go to LA. You have to go to the hairdresser.’ But I want to be taken seriously and I know physique is important and I probably don’t make as much effort as maybe I should.”

The antithesis of a Hollywood leading lady, Green is straight-forward which is probably why she comes across as a little intimidating, and doesn’t find the need to ingratiate herself – which makes her all the more likeable.

Sitting in her suite of the Beverly Hills SLS Hotel, Green is evidently not a fan of Los Angeles. She says, “The bullshit of Hollywood is okay for one week. You do your meetings and auditions but I feel that all that stuff sucks your blood. I actually feel very insecure here in LA and very self-conscious. LA is all about the work and whether you’re hot or not hot. It’s tough,” she says. “And every time I’m here, I always can’t wait to go back to Europe.”

There’s no doubt Green emits a certain confidence. It’s difficult to imagine that underneath this steely exterior is a shy and insecure woman.

“Yes, I know. People don’t believe it. It seems very funny and that’s why I feel a bit mad because it’s so paradoxical, but when I’m in a secure environment, like on a set when it’s nice, it’s great. It’s all the judgment, the auditioning and the politics that I don’t deal with very well. And it’s a hard business because you’re rejected more than you are accepted. That’s the thing.

“But even growing up, I was a very shy child. I was happiest when it would rain because I could hide behind an umbrella. I also had a terrible time in school because I was so shy and fearful of everything.”

Given her shy disposition, she certainly makes some brave fashion choices and puts herself directly in the firing line for some harsh criticism. “I think of myself as pretty conventional in my everyday life, so when I go on the red carpet, I’m like a little girl and I want to wear something fun that I would never wear to a normal party. And then I’ll see myself in the ‘what not to wear’ section. I mean, who gives a f***? People take it so seriously. I think it’s better to be unique.”

She recalls, “I loved it when I was promoting the Bond film and there was an article in People magazine saying ‘Eva Green. Worst Dressed’. I was quite proud.”

Not much is known about her romantic life, although she was in a relationship with New Zealand actor, Marton Csokas, whom she met on Ridley Scott’s Kingdom of Heaven and split in 2009. She lives alone in London.

Green found herself the object of gossip earlier this year when it was reported that Depp and his longtime partner Vanessa Paradis might be breaking up, citing Green as the possible cause. “How do I deal with rumours?” she says, repeating the question. “I don’t deal with them,” she says, matter-of-factly. Nevertheless, gossip and speculation are part and parcel of public life.

“This job can make you paranoid very quickly. What I did learn through working with Johnny was that, famous as he is, he doesn’t buy into it. He’s actually very normal.”

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By Nisha Lilia Diu

What would you buy Tim Burton for his birthday?

He clearly has all the dark garments and violet-tinted specs a man could need, and the director of Corpse Bride and Edward Scissorhands doesn’t seem the type to make use of a tie.

‘I got him a rainbow beetle,’ says Eva Green, Burton’s leading lady in his new vampire comedy, Dark Shadows. A beetle. Of course.

‘There’s this shop in New York I go to, it has bones and fossils and insects that are like works of art. I have a few on my wall. Some people collect butterflies – I love beetles.’ Did Burton like his beetle? ‘He loved it.’

Eva Green, 31, is a woman of possibly more gothic tastes than her director. It’s as apparent in her acting roles – she’s played several witches, power-hungry princesses and killers of various descriptions – as her dress.

On a day warm enough to have most of the British population booking pedicures and reaching for their flip-flops, Green is veritably encased in clothing.

She approaches me in the restaurant of a London hotel looking as if she’s just got off a motorcycle circa the winter of 1980:

Dark aviators, black leather biker jacket jangling with zips and chains, military boots and black skinny jeans. Her hair, too, is black – the flat, light-sucking colour of coal dust.

Green declines to sit down. She looks panicked. I’ve chosen a quiet corner but she’s worried about ‘people listening’.

She flicks her eyes to a pair of businessmen a few tables away and suggests we move to the lounge, which is deserted, apologising repeatedly for being ‘self-conscious’.

Her voice, already whispery, drops to a barely audible pitch whenever anyone enters the room.

This is the woman who is completely naked throughout the bulk of her debut film, Bernardo Bertolucci’s The Dreamers.

She disrobes within the first 90 seconds of Perfect Sense (in the company of Ewan McGregor), has a vigorous sex scene in the opening episode of Camelot (a sexed-up mini-series about the Arthurian legend from the makers of The Tudors).

And another with Orlando Bloom in Ridley Scott’s Kingdom of Heaven. In fact, somewhat ironically, virtually the only role in which Green doesn’t take her clothes off is that of the Bond girl Vesper Lynd in Casino Royale.

The producers wanted her to, of course, but she didn’t feel the story justified it.

And anyway, as she has pointed out in a previous interview, ‘Daniel Craig is the Bond girl, not me [in that film]. He’s the one who comes out of the sea with his top off.’

True as this may be, there’s no denying Eva Green’s magnetic beauty. In person she is slight with enormous, darting eyes.

But on screen she has a lush physicality that projects intense erotic power. Unsurprisingly, Lancôme, Emporio Armani and Christian Dior have all sought to capture it by having her model for them.

While shooting the advert for the fragrance Midnight Poison – in which she swings from a chandelier dripping in sapphires and blue organza – she became friendly with Dior’s former creative director, John Galliano. (He later lent her pieces from the Dior archive to wear in the film Cracks.)

She came to his defence when he was fired for making anti-Semitic comments during a drunken rant in a Paris bar, describing him as ‘very vulnerable’ and ‘shy’.

‘Oh, yeah, he is,’ she says today. ‘He’s like a little bird: gentle, fragile.’

Yet he’s so outlandish in his dress. ‘Lots of shy people dress a bit too much. It’s just kind of an armour. People say the same thing about me.’

Green’s red-carpet choices are certainly theatrical. She has a particular fondness for trains, heavy embellishment and wild hairdos. The back-combed style she sported when collecting her Bafta award in 2007 was, in her own words, ‘quite The Cure’.

‘I recognise myself in [Galliano] sometimes,’ she goes on. ‘People think I’m so strong,’ she pumps her fist, ‘but I’m very shy.’

Green’s accent is a beguiling combination of cut-glass English, transatlantic twang and Gallic emphases (ancestors comes out ‘an-ces-tors’).

Although she’s lived in London for the past seven years she grew up in Paris, the daughter of a French mother and Swedish father (her surname is pronounced ‘Gren’).

Talking doesn’t seem to come easily to her.

Long, awkward silences precede her answers and she has a habit of trailing off mid-sentence. Often she takes a deep breath before speaking and her hands whirl in front of her as though physically drawing the words out.

When she does make it to the end of a train of thought she concludes with a little pause followed by, ‘yeah,’ spoken in the tone of a verbal shrug, as though to dismiss all she’s just said.

Her agent warned her against doing The Dreamers, fearing she was too fragile for such an explicit piece, and it’s easy to see why. (Bertolucci, for his part, commented that the 22-year-old was ‘so beautiful, it’s indecent’.)

The film chronicles the sexual mind-games played by a trio of teenagers during the Paris riots of 1968. Her mother, the actress Marlène Jobert, who worked with Jean-Luc Godard and Claude Chabrol, also had reservations.

‘She was scared for me because of the myth of Maria Schneider being traumatised shooting Last Tango in Paris.’

Schneider suffered from breakdowns and drug addiction after completing Bertolucci’s most notorious film, later checking into an Italian psychiatric hospital and blaming Bertolucci for her condition.

‘My mother was worried that Bernardo was a weird dictator. But he’s not at all. He’s like a daddy.’

The childless Bertolucci invited the young cast of The Dreamers to his Paris apartment during the shoot where ‘he talked about music and cinema. He’s very wise, very generous.’

What was her actual father’s reaction to the film? ‘My father? Oh, nothing.’ She laughs. ‘My father and sister said absolutely nothing. They pretend it didn’t happen. It’s like I did a porn movie for them.’ Her mother is a little more accepting.

The scandal the film’s nudity created still makes her angry. ‘That’s the only thing that people talked about. I was thinking about it just two days ago, actually. How come you can kill people on film but you cannot have sex?’

She and her non-identical twin sister, Joy, are ‘very, very different’, she says. Joy is married to an Italian count and lives ‘between Normandy and Tuscany. It’s a nice life.’

They are close now but had ‘a lot of conflict’ as teenagers. ‘She’s much more down to earth than me,’ says Green. While Joy was hanging out with friends and dating boys Eva was busy with her homework.

‘I was very studious, too much. I would never go out at weekends. I was very serious. You should have seen me in class – I was blushing and sweating every time the teacher asked me something.’

Has she grown less shy with time? ‘No,’ she answers, without a moment’s hesitation.

But there are glimpses of dry humour, too. At one point her phone sounds. ‘It’s the alarm clock,’ she says, raising an eyebrow at it in mild surprise. ‘That’s interesting.’

She gives me the premise for Dark Shadows:

Her character is spurned by an aristocratic Johnny Depp so, being a witch, ‘she turns him into a vampire and locks him in a coffin for a few centuries so he can have a think’.

When he wakes up it’s 1972 and his descendants, a bunch of drawling hippies, have let the family pile fall to ruin. Michelle Pfeiffer and Helena Bonham Carter also star in this camp sci-fi melodrama.

It’s based on a bizarre soap opera on television in America for five years in the late 1960s. ‘I think,’ Burton has said of the series, ‘you could say it was actually awful.’

In the film adaptation Depp cries blood, fights the television and utters things like, ‘You may strategically take your wonderful lips and kiss my posterior repeatedly,’ to Green, his platinum-haired nemesis.

For her part she alternates between aggressive attempts to seduce him and murderous attacks (including trying to crush him with a mirror ball). ‘She’s quite full-on,’ says Green. ‘But, you know, it’s love.’

Love, in Green’s opinion, is ‘exhausting. I don’t like flirting and when I love someone I always give everything, maybe too much. And then you have to work at it all the time.

‘I mean, the first months are always great but afterwards it becomes hard work. It’s not as passionate and crazy.’

Green has had at least two long-term relationships (with the actors Yann Claassen and Marton Csokas) but she is currently single.

‘I think I wouldn’t be able to live with somebody now,’ she says. ‘I’ve decided. I think it’s nice to be independent and have your own space.’

Like Burton and Bonham Carter (who live in adjacent, interconnected houses)? ‘Yeah. Ideal. You have your own living-room, you can have it black with pink; you can have whatever you want.

‘The routine is kind of scary for me. It’s nice to remain – not mysterious – but not to share everything. I think that’s dangerous.’

She checks herself. ‘Of course a lot of people do share everything and they’re very happy. It depends on the person.’

When she was at school she would watch her classmates flirting ‘and I felt as if they were playing at being couples, playing at being in love. I wanted the real thing. I was maybe a bit pretentious,’ she allows with a wry smile.

She once commented that she ‘felt like she was 1,000’. What did she mean by that? ‘I’ve never been young,’ she says. ‘Sometimes I’m young when I’m drunk but I think too much.

‘I feel as if I’m floating, sort of daydreaming, not living my life fully. I wish I could be more’ – she clicks her fingers – ‘what’s that book? The Power of Now. I should read that.’

Something makes me ask her if she ever dances. ‘No!’ She bursts out laughing. ‘I never went clubbing. Ever. You can’t talk, it’s so loud. Men get to you and it’s like, “I don’t know you.” No. No.’ She shudders at the thought.

Green often uses the word ‘ballsy’ to describe her acting roles and admits their appeal is their contrast from her timidity in real life.

She loves her character in Dark Shadows because, she says, ‘she is cuckoo’. And she is soon to start filming 300: Battle of Artemesia, a prequel to the Gerard Butler film of 2006, in which she plays the ruthless goddess of the title.

In our hour together I notice that Green is either intensely involved in our conversation, pressing her fingers to her lips in concentration, or disengaged, bored.

I think she is a true Romantic, in many ways, living life as a restless quest for pure, unfiltered passions. A dreamer, after all.

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Most women around the world are powerless to Johnny Depp’s charms, no matter what he’s wearing. And it seems dressing as a 200 year-old vampire can’t put off the ladies either.

The superstar’s character Barnabas manages to attract the attention of just about every female in Tim Burton’s latest gothic comedy ‘Dark Shadows‘.

Eva Green, who plays a witch so obsessed with Barnabas that she buries him alive, spoke to us on the purple carpet at the European ‘Dark Shadows‘ premiere.

The former Bond girl insisted that despite the allure of the Hollywood superstar, on-screen kisses aren’t as glamorous as they appear:

“Every actor knows… It’s a job. It’s just a job.”

Pressed further about what it was like, she flashed a cheeky grin, admitting: “OK, it wasn’t too bad!”

The ‘Casino Royale‘ actress spoke about her character Angelique Bouchard, who is so desperately in love with Barnabas Collins (Depp) that she casts a spell on him, turning him into a vampire.

She explained: “It was such a meaty role, very complex, she has such an amazing journey… she starts from being so in control, and then little by little Barnabas keeps resisting her, and she cracks up”.

Quizzed about her character’s quest to live forever with Barnabas by her side, The ‘Golden Compass‘ star confessed:

“Oh, I would never be immortal like Angelique”.

Her Australian co-star Bella Heathcote, who started out in Neighbours, was also lucky enough to lock lips with the heart-throb.

She played Victoria Winters and the ghostly Josette DuPres – the two loves of Barnabas’ life. Lucky girl!

She told Entertainmentwise: “It was pretty strange. All on-set kisses are weird, no matter who it is, especially with people standing around coughing and sneezing. It’s very uncomfortable!”

Asked if Johnny’s off screen girfriend Vanessa Paradis was around on set, she said: “I wasn’t fortunate enough to meet Vanessa, I’m a big fan of hers.”

She went on to say: “Tim and all the cast attracted me to the film. It was a lot of fun, I had a blast.”

Asked if she’d ever return to soap operas, she added: “Never say never, but soaps are very hard work. Not that movies like this aren’t!”

We asked Bella why she thinks vampires are so sexy. She gave us her take on the recent vampire craze:

“I think it’s the promise of eternal romance, or eternal love… it’s just an idealistic dream”.

It doesn’t look like the vampire phenomenon will be dying out any time soon!

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The French beauty and Galliano became friendly while she was shooting the advert for the Christian Dior fragrance Midnight Poison.

Eva came to his defence when he was sacked from Dior and his eponymous label last year, after he used racist language during a drunken argument.

The actress described him as “vulnerable” and “shy” at the time – remarks she still stands by.

“Oh, yeah, he is. He’s like a little bird: gentle, fragile,” she told British newspaper The Telegraph, adding about his outlandish dress sense: “Lots of shy people dress a bit too much. It’s just kind of an armour. People say the same thing about me.”

Eva has a signature red carpet look that borders on the theatrical. The stunning star often wears dark gothic designs which are heavily embellished, and her make-up is bold and sexy.

Eva says her dress sense mirrors the audacious ensembles worn by Galliano.

“I recognise myself in [Galliano] sometimes,” she added. “People think I’m so strong, but I’m very shy.”

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Eva Green has revealed the inspiration for her eccentric Dark Shadows temptress Angelique Bouchard.

Lara Parker played Angelique on the original Dark Shadowssoap opera, but Green has said that a variety of influences helped her re-create the character for Tim Burton’s film.

“I got inspired by many things, you know? The music of Janis Joplin, Bette Davis in her more bonkers roles. Also, Jack Nicholson sometimes, his great way of being on the edge,” Green said, reports Flicks and Bits.

“It was many things. But also there’s something quite human about her. I think she may be the ‘baddie’ but she’s kind of a damaged character. Damaged by love.”

Green further suggested that she loved playing such an off-kilter character whose motives aren’t entirely clear.

“Angelique is definitely a bit cuckoo. She’s a very big character, she’s mad about Barnabas,” the star explained. “When we first meet her it’s in the 18th century, and she’s a servant working for the Collins family.

“She has this affair with the young master, Barnabas, but he breaks her heart when he rejects her for Josette (Bella Heathcote).

“She’s not very happy. She’s a witch and she takes her revenge by turning him into a vampire and decides to lock him in a coffin for several centuries… as we all do, you know, when we get a bit hurt.”

Green previously said that she relished the chance to work with acclaimed director Burton, who she described as “a filmmaker and a painter that [she] worship[s]“.

Dark Shadows opens on May 11 in the US and the UK.

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Eva Green wore a navy velvet cocktail dress, open toe sandals, and crocodile stamp gold plated cuffs all by Tom Ford.

As she posed with her hands on her hip, Green made sure that the two bright gold cuffs she had worn stood out, and a pair of peep-toe heels could be seen underneath her dress.

In the upcoming film – which is directed by Tim Burton – Green plays Angelique Bouchard, a vengeful witch who plots a vendetta against Johhny Depp’s character, Barnabas Collins and his family.

However, when asked what it was like to kiss her co-star, Depp, Green simply replied: ‘Not bad.’

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Shortly after our interview ended, Eva Green returned to her home planet, happy and ridiculously hot.

I love people like Eva Green. I love actors who not only maintain a personal sense of style but who genuinely seem like they are tuned in to a private radio station, listening to music only they can hear. I love them because we often see that individual personality come out in their work in ways that no one could predict. They give performances that are alive in unexpected ways, and the films they are in are much richer for it.

Eva Green made a pretty serious impact on male moviegoers as soon as Bertolucci introduced her in “The Dreamers,” and there is no doubt… she’s a stunning woman. As she’s gotten older, though, what’s become increasingly clear is that she is not really equipped to be part of the machine. She’s been in some big films, sure, but I don’t get the sense that she has handed herself over, heart and soul, desperate to be a movie star.

Instead, she seems to following her own path, project to project, drawn to certain types of characters. Films like “Womb” and “Perfect Sense” aren’t designed to make her a superstar. Instead, these are movies actors do because they’re compelled by the material, because they like what the film has to say, or because of a filmmaker they trust.

When Green does show up in big films, she’s memorable. I think it was essential for whoever played Vesper Lynd in “Casino Royale” to cast a big shadow even after she’s gone, a presence that would haunt Bond as he moves forward in the series. That’s Green in a nutshell. Say what you will about her, but “forgettable” is not a description people use about her.

In “Dark Shadows,” she plays Angelique Bouchard, the witch whose spurned passions kick off the entire thing, and she was in rare form when we sat down to discuss the movie at the SLS Hotel in Beverly Hills.

The film opens Friday.

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The former Bond Girl – who plays a witch in Tim Burton’s vampire movie Dark Shadows – stayed with the gothic theme at the LA premiere, with pasty white make-up, black eyes and a long, figure-hugging Tom Ford gown.

Earlier old pals Johnny and Tim joked about a high-voltage sex scene between actor’s blood-sucking oddball and Eva’s spellbinding witch.

Tim said: “We’ve seen enough phony sex scenes that we thought we should make it real for a change.

“It’s expensive sex with a lot of trashing of rooms … It’s fun though.”

Johnny added: “You read it on the page, and it reads a certain way, and you see Eva Green, who is one of the most stunning and brilliant women on the planet, and then suddenly, you’re being strapped together by wires and you know, straps and things like that and then hurled across the room and then bashed into a wall.

“Basically, it was a lot of fun.”

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Rodrigo, who will be once more playing the role of Persian King Xerxes, confirmed that the movie is due to be shot this summer, and depict ancient historical events that took place alongside the storyline of its predecessor.

The actor told Collider: “I think they’re calling it a spin-off because it’s not exactly a prequel, it’s not a sequel. It takes place in the same time, you start a little earlier but then you see that it’s like a different point of view, a different camera, a different angle.

“While that battle was happening, the one that you saw in 300, there was another battle happening next to it and you will have a chance to see all of that happening and how they interact. I don’t want to ruin it.”

Rodrigo went on to reveal that this film will focus much more on his character’s childhood and how he became the Persian King: “I think they will try to do a little backstory on Xerxes and they will explain how he became ‘the God King’, which I’m excited about.”

He added: “I don’t know what it’s going to be. I’ve never played a character twice. It’s interesting. I think the challenging thing for me now will be to try to bring something new for the fans, for the audience and for myself just to make it interesting to play it again.”

The film is to be directed by Noam Murro, and it has already been revealed that Casino Royale actress Eva Green and Sullivan Stapleton will be starring alongside Rodrigo in the Frank Miller graphic novel adaptation.

“We start shooting in July. They’re working on the very, well you never know, but last draft of the script. I think they’re calling it a spin-off because it’s not exactly a prequel, it’s not a sequel. It takes place in the same time, you start a little earlier but then you see that it’s like a different point of view, a different camera, a different angle. While that battle was happening, the one that you saw in 300, there was another battle happening next to it and you will have a chance to see all of that happening and how they interact. I don’t want to ruin it.”

Also, as Santoro had stated before, there will be an explanation of Xerxes backstory and how he became the God-King:

“They are working on, right now, trying to explain it, I think they will try to do a little backstory on Xerxes and they will explain how he became ‘the God King,’ which I’m excited about. I don’t know what it’s going to be. I’ve never played a character twice. It’s interesting. I think the challenging thing for me now will be to try to bring something new for the fans, for the audience and for myself just to make it interesting to play it again.”

Santoro also commented on the amount of effort it takes not only to play the God-King Xerxes, but to be transformed into him:

“I’ve got to be honest, it’s a real hard process to get there, not only working out like crazy, [but also] shaving. I’ve got to shave all over my body. It’s a really intense, bizarre character, so it’s a lot of work to get there. Make-up: like five or six hours of make-up every day. When you see it, it looks cool, but there’s a lot of work behind it. That’s all very challenging and I’m looking forward to it. I hope it’s going to be great.”

Check out the video interview below for more from Santoro and 300: Battle of Artemisia.

I’ve been able to add scans from the French magazine Studio Ciné Live that features Eva Green’s filming diary and also about 20 pages dedicated to Tim Burton, Dark Shadows and Michelle Pfeiffer. I’ve only added Eva’s diary to our Bubble so far.

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Goaded to elaborate on “many things,” the actress purred, and said in French-accented English said: “Sshhh … I won’t tell you.” Eva, who plays a witch in “Dark Shadows,” arrived dressed in character.

“Oohhh,” said Eva when asked about her sex scene with Johnny. Eva and Johnny – who plays a vampire named Barnabas – fly around the room making passionate love – and wreck the place!

Eva laughed and said: “What’s great is that it’s not like the usual sex scene where you go, ‘Oh my God …’ You don’t sleep the night before and you have 20 people in the room. You feel extremely self-conscious and it’s never sexy. This one was just fun. For me, it was like Ken and Barbie having sex—puppet lovemaking. It was very funny. It was hard to keep a straight face.”

The stunt people did all the hard work, according to Eva. “Otherwise, I probably would not have survived it,” said the actress, who was memorable as Vesper Lynd, the true love of James Bond in “Casino Royale” (Daniel Craig’s first 007 movie).

“I hope I’m not like Angelique,” Eva said of her “Dark Shadows” character, who turns Barnabas into a vampire and then buries him alive when he breaks her heart. “I would do a lot for love but I wouldn’t put my boyfriend in a coffin,” she said.

The daughter of French actress Marlene Jobert, Eva pointed out: “I call Angelique ‘Ballsy Barbie.’ There’s something strong and cuckoo about her. I have a tendency to be drawn to dark characters who still retain their humanity, although with conflicted feelings. That’s always interesting.”

Praises co-stars

Eva praised her co-stars—Michelle Pfeiffer and Helena Bonham Carter—in Tim Burton’s big screen adaptation of the TV series in the late 1960s. “They’re very normal people,” she said. “They make you feel very comfortable. There’s no tension or pressure. It could be a set for a small film. Sometimes you feel, my God, there’s lots of money involved here. But there’s also lots of love and trust on the set.”

Recalled Eva: “Helena was very supportive and wonderful from the start. She knew I was nervous. I was worried about getting fired! Michelle is an amazing actress and was also very supportive, saying, ‘You go, girl. It’s going to be fine.’ Thank God they were around.”

Launched by Bertolucci

Eva debuted on film in a major way – through Bernardo Bertolucci’s “The Dreamers.” She played a young Parisian who engages in a ménage à trois with Michael Pitt and Louis Garrel. (Jake Gyllenhaal reportedly dropped out due to concerns over the provocative sexuality.)

“I didn’t see it as an erotic role,” Eva asserted. “It was a role with some erotic scenes … I’m extremely proud of it … In a way, Bertolucci gave birth to me so I’m very grateful.”

Asked why she rejected the female lead role who manifests violent sexual behavior in Lars von Trier’s “Antichrist,” Eva answered: “It was a complicated issue. We didn’t agree on some matters …”

Charlotte Gainsbourg took over the role and won the Cannes best actress award in 2009.

Eva sounded excited to play Artemisia in “300: Battle of Artemisia,” the follow-up to the Gerard Butler blockbuster. “It’s also a very strong role,” she said. “She’s commander of the Persian armada.”

To look the part of a fighter, Eva changed her diet the day after this interview. “I will drink a bit of wine tonight and then that’s it,” she said, with a hint of resignation. “We’ll have to see each other in two months … I might look like a man!”

People judge all the time

Of the tough competition in show biz, Eva, who lives in London, commented: “People judge you all the time. You’re hot. You’re not hot. You’re bankable. You’re nothing. I shouldn’t take it personally, but it’s hard not to.”

When she wants a break from all the glitz and competition, Eva likes to retreat to Megève, a ski resort in France. “Hanging out with cows is fun,” she quipped.

By: Ruben V. Nepales
Philippine Daily Inquirer

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- Scans: InStyle (UK) – June 2012, thanks to Lorna
- Photoshoots: InStyle UK (2012)

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- Events: Dark Shadows Press Conference – April 29, 2012

The Dark Shadows movie is the cover story of the latest issue of magazine Entertainment Weekly. Featuring interviews with director Tim Burton and Johnny Depp (Barnabas Collins), along with other members of the cast and crew, it details the project’s development and confirms the film’s final budget at $125 million, considerably higher than the $60 million figure Variety reported at the end of last year.

“Barnabas extols the virtues of family and rejects people who are insincere and selfish,” explains Johnny Depp. “We wanted to pit this selfless family-first hero against the ‘Me’ decade.” Depp also speaks about filming scene with original Barnabas actor Jonathan Frid: “He was incredibly sweet about my taking on this character… Putting his eyeballs on me for the first time, all decked out as a slightly different version of him… it had to be pretty weird for him.” The issue is available on newsstands now and can also be downloaded in iPad format.

In other movie news, it’s been confirmed that the official tie-in book for the movie, Dark Shadows: The Art of the Film, will now be available in the United States. The large-format hardback book was originally announced for publication in the United Kingdom last November, promising production artwork, interviews and unseen photography. US readers can now pre-order the book by clicking here.

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Are you an aspiring writer? This might be your chance! StudioCanal is looking for a brand new novel written by an unknown, unpublished writer. If you wrote an original, unique, interesting, captivating, well-written novel that’s not available on the interwebs or in print, keep reading. Plagiarism won’t be accepted! The novel must be original and you musn’t be a published writer. StudioCanal wants to encourage new writers. They want to adapt and eventually co-produce the best novel in partnerships with small independent production companies from the UK and Italy. Nobody is looking for the new Twilight!

If you think you have a chance, please submit your full name, place of birth, city of residence, resume, synopsis of your novel (they’ll probably receive many submissions that they’ll need to read a synopsis before reading the entire novel), your major inspirations behind the novel, favourite books and authors, what made you want to be a writer, and, finally, a pdf file containing your novel. By submitting your novel, you give you on rights to it, meaning that they’ll belong to the database of StudioCanal now. You may be asked to sign a confidentiality agreement. Languages accepted are English, French and Italian.

You must be older than 18.

Your deadline is up until June 1st, but, in case this is a success, the deadline can be extended.

The email you have to use is Elisa Favreau favreau.elisa [REMOVETHIS] @ [REMOVETHIS] gmail.com

All legal stuff, payment and detailed info will be then discussed via them. I’m just passing the news forward.

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Between roles in Casino Royale and Kingdom of Heaven, Eva Green has played some pretty tough women. While her upcoming role as Angelique Bouchard in Tim Burton’s Dark Shadows flexes a few different muscles, she’ll return to the realm of ass-kicking ladies in Noam Murro’s follow-up to 300, which may or may not be subtitled Battle of Artemisia.

While talking to The Hollywood Reporter, Green dropped a few hints about her character Artemisia, noting that the character is based on an person from history. “She’s a commander of the Persian armada,” she said. “So she fights – she’s like a man.” The actress went on to say, “She’s another very, very strong woman that has some balls, that’s for sure.”

Directed by Murro from a script by 300 collaborators Zack Snyder and Kurt Johnstad, the follow-up initially was touted as a prequel based on Frank Miller’s forthcoming Dark Horse miniseries Xerxes, which takes place 10 years before Thermopylae. However, there are now indications that the film is neither a prequel nor a sequel, and could instead chronicle the Battle of Artemisium, a series of naval engagements that took place simultaneously with the more famous Battle of Thermopylae depicted in 300. The film is set for an Aug. 2, 2013, release.

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