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| Metro/Handout/Sony Pictures Actress Bérénice Marlohe will star as Severine in the upcoming James Bond film Skyfall. |
From Cambodia with love: Meet Severine
May 1, 2012By Kieron Monks
Metro World News (Canada)
When the model and TV actress first heard that Skyfall auditions were to be held Paris, she became obsessed. “I sent my reel to anyone on Facebook related to the movie”, Bérénice Marlohe recalls.
But after the casting director got in touch and she found herself testing scenes with Daniel Craig and Sam Mendes, the pressure hit home. “There were moments when I felt scared and trapped by this huge concept of Bond girl”, the 32-year-old admits. Marlohe’s first passions were art and the piano, and as a self-confessed “paranoid” – starring in a $150 million blockbuster represented a departure from comfort zone.
The actress was helped in her role as the mysterious Severine by studying Famke Janssen’s dominatrix Xenia Onatopp in GoldenEye. “It’s so original to have a character who kills and has an orgasm at the same time, that’s what we go to movies for”.
In the end, a sense of responsibility pacified Marlohe. Cambodian by descent, she saw the global platform offered by the role as a chance to represent her country, still scarred by recent genocide and continued oppression “I see it as power to be a voice for my country, to speak for those who don’t have that chance. I will use the celebrity for human rights”.
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KI-Media Note: The French magazine Paris-Match (10 April 2012) indicated that Bérénice's father is a Sino-Cambodian doctor living in France.
6 comments:
It's somewhat gratifying since she has no drop of Khmer blood, or spent any momment of her life in Cambodia, but still mentioned Cambodia
Why are you focusing on the playboy, Heng Soy?
Congratulation Bérénice Marlohe,
you will shine bright in this movie. Don't forget who you are.
could not find any info about her as a cambodian by descent.
How this natural wasp poisonous and this will could they let France Ice? Born in Paris to a mother chti social worker and a father Sino-Cambodian family doctor, she grew up in the love of art, his first love, sent by his parents. "Excellent Painters," she said. When she decides to become an actress, she runs into a wall. "Agents were telling me:" You do not look like Sandrine Kiberlain Isabelle Carré, you will never make career ", or" Come back when you have relationships. "This was not how I saw the craft. "For nearly seven years, she cachetonne for TV series (" Father and Mayor "," Emergency Medical Team ") and secondary roles (" Art to seduce ") is the model without conviction, and running commercials (Dacia) to reap savings. In early 2011, she understands that France is not enough. She flew to Los Angeles two months: she will die another day to the seventh art
Wow congrats to Bérénîce! Why are people questioning her khmer blood? There are alot of khmers in France. Even I have relatives there. I was born in the states but my heart is in Cambodia too. So its good to see someone using there newfound fame for a good cause. I wish her happiness and success. Lay off trolls.
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