that day when she curtly snubbed Juliette Binoche

Actress Juliette Binoche had the opportunity to shoot alongside Catherine Deneuve in The truth, a film by Hirokazu Kore-Eda, released in theaters in 2019. In this dramatic feature, Catherine Deneuve plays Fabienne, a cinema icon whose publication of memoirs will encourage Lumir (Juliette Binoche), screenwriter in New York, to get closer to mother and family. Unfortunately, nothing will go as planned, and a distance will quickly be created between the two women… A scenario which unfortunately comes close to reality, Juliette Binoche being ready to do anything to arouse the interest of her idol : “To play with her was for me to meet an icon and a childhood dream: ‘Peau d’Âne’ was, for me, the wonder of wonders.” The queen of cinema is known to be distant and cold with people she does not know or knows little, so Juliette Binoche has found a trick to approach him gently… in vain.

Juliette Binoche will do anything, even smoke, to get closer to her idol, Catherine Deneuve

Knowing that Catherine Deneuve was a smoker, Juliette Binoche went so far as to start smoking to spend a few privileged moments with the actress. Only then, her first approach ended in failure, as she had told TV 7 Days in 2019: “I asked her for a cigarette… and she refused! It was a little stiff! I was surprised, and even a little hurt.” So as not to rush her, she then said to her: “I’ll give it back to you.” Without knowing that she had just committed a new fault with regard to Catherine Deneuve: she had dared to address her without her authorization.

“Without paying attention, I called her familiar. Later, during rehearsal, she threw a cigarette at me. I smoked it, victorious”, she remembers in 7 Days TV. This is how little by little, always on the basis of teasing, the two women began to tame each other.