Eva green

But on the other hand, she has redeemed the quintessential womanizer on the big screen, James Bond, agent 007. In any case, Eva Green has shown enough talent to attract the attention of great filmmakers.

Born in the French capital two minutes before Joy, her twin sister, Eva Gaëlle Green is the daughter of French actress of Algerian origin Marléne Jobert ( Masculine, Feminine ), and Walter Green , a Swedish dentist who occasionally worked as a screen interpreter. , with an important role in Al azar, Baltasar , by Robert Bresson .

He studied at American University, a bilingual institution where he learned English perfectly. As a child she was shy and reserved, and very fond of Egyptology, after a visit to the Louvre Museum she made when she was 7 years old. She also soon became a great lover of music, she learned to play the piano, and she even launched herself into the composition of small pieces.

At the age of 14, she already dreamed of becoming an actress, after discovering Isabelle Adjani in Adele H.’s Intimate Diary. a huge disappointment, although with the passage of time he has ended up accepting his daughter’s vocation.

To achieve his goal, he prepared intensely. He studied acting at the Saint Paul School of Dramatic Art, in Paris, and perfected his technique at the Douglas Weber Academy, in London. He later enrolled in directing at New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts.

With such training, it was not difficult for her to be recruited for cache Parisian theatrical productions. She even obtained a nomination for the Molière award, the most prestigious on the French scene, as a new actress, for “Jalousie en Trois Fax”.

On stage, Eva Green was discovered by the prestigious filmmaker Bernardo Bertolucci , who described her beauty as “indecent”. She offered her a contract to make her film debut as the protagonist of Dreamers , but the girl was on the verge of not accepting, on the express advice of her agent and her parents. Due to the intense erotic charge of the film, they were worried that the same thing would happen to Maria Schneider , traumatized for the rest of her life after starring under the orders of the Italian in the also bawdy Last Tango in Paris .

Finally, the filmmaker persuaded Green, promising him elegant and polite treatment, despite the numerous sex and nudity sequences in the film. In addition, Bertolucci was so dazzled by his musical knowledge that he ended up commissioning the young woman to write the soundtrack. For her work as a girl who indulges in all kinds of psychological and sexual games with her brother and an American tourist, in the midst of the riots of May 1968, she received excellent reviews and began to gain some recognition, to the point that the They signed up for several advertising campaigns (he has even shot a perfume ad under the orders of Wong Kar Wai ). “The film has been criticized for its erotic charge, but I think it also had background themes,” the interpreter argued in her defense.

After playing the countess who dazzled the protagonist in the French film Arsène Lupine , by Jean-Paul Salomé, Eva Green made the leap to Hollywood cinema, with The Kingdom of Heaven , by Ridley Scott , where she played Sibila, sister of the King Baudouin of Jerusalem, at the time of the Third Crusade. Apart from the fact that his work was hampered by the lack of conviction of the main actor, Orlando Bloom , with whose character he had an affair, Green’s role was greatly reduced (in fact he hardly appears) when Fox forced the director to lighten forty minutes of footage for the film to last two hours.

He has never moved to Los Angeles like other colleagues who are looking for more possibilities to work in the movie mecca. “My base of operations is in London, my heart in Paris and my work in Hollywood. But I’m not forgetting the independent European cinema that made me an actress. Plus, I don’t drive, so what would I do in a city like Los Angels?”, he declared.

Eva Green had the biggest hit of her career as Vesper Lynd, a British treasury agent who charmed Daniel Craig , the new James Bond, in 007 Casino Royale , a reboot of the licensed-to-kill agent franchise. She was the most important female appearance in the saga since Ursula Andress , from whom she inherited the character.

Interestingly, he met Craig again (although they had no scenes together) in The Golden Compass , a disastrous adaptation of a novel with angry criticism of Catholicism by Philip Pullman . She played a witch who was also going to have a presence in the two sequels, but the box office disaster was so huge that (luckily) they were never filmed.

Unfortunately, it seems that Eva Green has suffered the curse of the Bond girls (except for Kim Basinger and Jane Seymour few have made a career on the big screen). She relapsed into incestuous relationships and witchcraft in the Camelot series , where she played Morgana, King Arthur’s sister, and was also a sorceress, who had a sexual affair with Johnny Depp , in Dark Shadows , the worst film ever made by Tim Burton . In recent times, she has become the muse of adaptations to the big screen of Frank Miller ‘s comics , as she plays the commander of the Persian army, Artemisia, in 300: The Rise of an Empire., and the femme fatale Ava Lord, in Sin City: A Dame to Kill For .

He is reluctant to make statements about his private life. Eva Green had a long-term relationship with New Zealand actor Marton Csokas , whom she met on the set of her film with Scott. But they broke up in 2009, and later the actress has only given rise to all kinds of rumors, as it has been published that she had an affair with Depp, and that she secretly married a stranger.

Defying all the stereotypes of the stars, Eva Green refuses to touch up in the operating room. “I’m not obsessed with my physique and I resist dieting. They are hell. Food is very important to me,” she has commented.

He could have a new opportunity to return to the top thanks to television, as Eva Green stars with Josh Hartnett in the Victorian horror series Penny Dreadful , whose first two chapters have been directed by the Spanish Juan Antonio Bayona .