“I’m at Venice airport. Out of nowhere, a guy approaches me. He claims to be casting a Claire Denis movie, and they want me. For me, Claire Denis is a legend. I don’t believe it, but I tell my agents about it anyway, because I would love to. And finally, it’s true. It was four years ago, in the middle of summer. She’s in New York. I have to meet her at her hotel in the Tribeca district. But I can’t find a taxi, so I ran across Manhattan so as not to keep her waiting…”
Anecdotal, the story, which she tells with velocity, summarizes Margaret Qualley. At 27, the model noticed in the ad for Kenzo by Spike Jonze, in 2016, the hippie teenager who embarked Brad Pitt in Once Upon a Time… in Hollywood (2019), by Quentin Tarantino, the penniless young mother fleeing, with her daughter, her violent husband in the series maid, in 2021, is the type to go out of their way to make others happy.
“He’s someone who can’t stand people going bad, abounds the director. During the filming in Panama, if someone was not well in the team, she sensed it immediately, and took care of it. She herself never complains. She has courage and she gives it. It was she who supported me in the hard times when I no longer knew if the film could be made. »
“The taste of the show”
With twelve feature films and three television series already to her credit, three films to come this year, two next year, Andie MacDowell’s daughter (whose filiation she would struggle to deny as we find in one the traits on the other), is in Cannes to present in official competition Stars at noon, by Claire Denis, a love story set in the rubble of revolutionary dreams in Central America. We find the actress in the Chanel suite, at 5e floor of the Majestic hotel, opposite the Palais des festivals, dressed to much more than four pins, she who had once arrived at her appointment with the director “completely soaked, the hair anyhow”.
Margaret Qualley: “At the cinema, at the end of the films, I would run down the hall and dance in front of the screen while the credits rolled, so that the whole audience would be for me for a few seconds”
“It was a project that had special meaning for me, says the actress. My father moved to Panama when I was 14. And the movie was supposed to be shot there. So I was determined to make it happen. I was hoping to bring him back. I thought it was wrong for him to be alone when his family needed him. And that’s what I ended up doing. »
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