All is not rosy in the world of cinema, testifies again this week an anecdote of Nathalie Baye told by our colleagues from Vanity Fair. In full promotion of his new film Downton Abbey: A New Erathe actress did not fail to tackle one of her former partners on the screen…
Indeed, for the magazine, Nathalie Baye remembered her film debut in Brief encounter in Paris of Robert Wise in 1973 alongside the legend Peter Fonda (disappeared in 2019). A meeting that marked the actress, but not necessarily for good reasons. “I especially remember that he was obnoxious” she dropped cash, jokingly, scratching the myth of the cult actor ofEasy Rider.
This Wednesday, April 27, Nathalie Baye appears once again in the casting of an Anglo-Saxon production on the occasion of the release of the second part, adapted from the hit series, Downton Abbey. The kind of ambitious project that thrills the actress who does not hesitate to work harder to be up to it. “It requires a lot of work, even if I manage. And I loved the few international shoots I did” she confided about her experiences abroad. Indeed, the mother of Laura Smet had already shown herself in front of the camera of the great Steven Spielberg in 2002 for Stop me if you can where she played Leonardo DiCaprio’s mother. “I’ve always been spoiled” she said with hindsight.
Nathalie Baye is a major figure in French cinema. As a reminder, she won a total of 4 César awards: 2 times for best actress in a supporting role for Save who can (life) in 1981 and for A strange affair in 1982, then also twice that of the best actress for her play in The balance in 1983 and finally The Little Lieutenant in 2006. More recently, she had won acclaim for her role in Just the end of the world by the Canadian Xavier Dolan where she shared the bill with Gaspard Ulliel, the actor who tragically disappeared last January.