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L’Épée: Emmanuelle Seigner and Anton Newcombe on art, hedonism and #metoo

She’s a French film star. He’s rock’s mercurial madman. Together they’re l’Épée, as seductive as Serge Gainsbourg and as druggily alluring as the Velvet Underground

It may be the hottest day on record in Paris, but no one appears to have told Emmanuelle Seigner. Striding through the lobby of the Royal Hotel on the Champs Elysées in black jeans, a David Bowie T-shirt and leather boots – a gift from her husband, the film director Roman Polanski – she is the personification of French cool. Heads turn, newspapers twitch, bellhops sweat a little more profusely. Is the star of Frantic and The Diving Bell and the Butterfly aware of the effect she still has on people?

“People see me that way because, when I was very young, I played those type of roles,” says the 53-year-old, with a shrug. “But it’s not the way I am. I feel more like a tomboy.”

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from Culture | The Guardian https://ift.tt/2UfRKxA

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