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Awards Chatter

Isabelle Huppert - 'Elle'

Awards Chatter

Scott Feinberg

Film Interviews, Tv & Film

4.71.6K Ratings

🗓️ 12 February 2017

⏱️ 66 minutes

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Summary

The 'Meryl Streep of France,' finally an Oscar nominee at the age of 63, discusses her close collaborations with Claude Chabrol and Michael Haneke, her attraction to "perverse, manipulative, icy" characters and the controversial new film for which she's received the best notices of her career. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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podcast. I'm the host Scott Feinberg and my guest today is the great

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French actress Isabelle Hooper. The 63-year-old who sometimes is referred to as the French Merrill Streep has been appearing in

0:56.1

films for 45 years during which she has established herself as one of the most daring

1:01.1

and respected actresses not only in her native France but in the entire world.

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Indeed, she was recently described by Variety as, quote, our greatest living actress, close quote.

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She has worked with everyone from Otto Pminger to Claude Chabral, to Michael

1:15.9

Chamino, to Michael Hanakee, to David O Russell. She has appeared in more films that were part

1:21.0

of the main lineup at the Cannes Film Festival than any other performer in history,

1:25.4

and twice has won Can's Best Actress Award, for Villelette in 1978, and for the piano teacher in 2001.

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She has received 16 nominations for Francis Cesar Award

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more than any other actress in its history

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and won once in 1996 for her work in La Ceremony.

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And this award season, in recognition of her controversial, disturbing, and masterful portrayal

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of a rape survivor in Paul Verhoven's most unusual French language drama L. She has won Best Actress

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Gotham, New York Film Critics Circle, Los Angeles Film Critics Association, and Golden

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Globe Awards and been nominated for Best Actress Critics Choice,

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