On all screens and in all registers! “As a spectator, I don’t like monotony. As an actress either”confides to AFP Isabelle Adjani, omnipresent this fall in the cinema as a fallen star, on television in Diane de Poitiers in search of immortality and on stage to meet Marilyn Monroe.
From Monday November 7, in the new major historical series of France 2 in two parts, she will play the most famous and intriguing courtesan of the Renaissance, Diane de Poitiers, huntress emeritus who hoped to maintain her beauty by drinking gold pure.
With chiseled dialogues by Didier Decoin, president of the Académie Goncourt, Gérard Depardieu as Nostradamus, Virginie Ledoyen, JoeyStarr, Michel Fau and Guillaume Gallienne complete the cast of this ambitious fresco in costumes and natural settings, under the direction of Josée Dayan, who in 1998 produced the series the count of Monte Cristo for TF1.
“I wanted to make a great period film with Isabelle Adjani around Diane de Poitiers, one of the first feminists, a fascinating and incredibly flamboyant personality emerging from the obscurantism of the Middle Ages.“, confides to AFP Josée Dayan, who is also thinking of the actress for a remake of the series Belphegor.
The only actress awarded five César, Isabelle Adjani, who took part in writing the screenplay for Diana of Potters, “try more and more, when accepting a film, to use for the role what(she) is, flattering for me or less flattering, too bad. (…) According to the periods of life, we change. We like each other, and then we like each other less…”.
“It is perhaps my attachment to the tradition of ‘acting’ Anglo-Saxon which leads me towards polymorphous performances! It’s jubilant!”she adds, confident to love the splits.
Also currently showing at the cinema in Masquerade, a Machiavellian thriller by Nicolas Bedos, the actress portrays a cougar actress nostalgic for her past, struggling with a gigolo (Pierre Niney).
“I said to myself that it was really not a role for me but that it would be a shame not to go there…Was choosing me to interpret a woman broken and + balls-busting + was the best choice? ?”asks the actress, amused.
In January in Antibes and in March at the Salle Pleyel in Paris, after the Théâtre de l’Atelier this summer, it will resume The Vertigo Marilyn, alone on stage created to measure by Olivier Steiner. An imaginary dialogue and also a mise-en-abîme between the two actresses, based on their respective interviews.
Next year, Isabelle Adjani will perform for Netflix a “mafia” of high flight in the adaptation by Mélanie Laurent of “The Great Odalisque”comics by Bastien Vivès, Ruppert and Mulot, recounting the adventures of seductive and uninhibited burglars, also with Adèle Exarchopoulos.
And, when she is not playing, Isabelle Adjani sings. Since “Navy sweater”, a success that she co-wrote with Serge Gainsbourg in 1983, the actress has recorded around twenty titles as part of collaborations. Recently, The Penelopes, a French electro-pop duo, enlisted her for their latest title, “The Last Goodbye”.