The Taste of Things director Tran Anh Hung found his co-stars’ history was a recipe for success.
Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time.So much butter! Benoit Magimel loves to eat fine French food – rather too much, as he would frequently say to his director, Tran Anh Hung, while they were making. He also cooks very well, according to his former real-life partner and on-screen collaborator in this new film, Juliette Binoche. He certainly looks at home with a chef’s knife in his hand. “I started by cooking for women,” he says.
By his own admission, however, the food he and Binoche simulate making in this sumptuous, succulent love story is way out of his league. “I really like to get my hands stuck in,” he says. “I have no fear of guts or anything like that. But you really must know they use so much butter to make this food. Half a kilo for a potato puree! And I learned how you have to work the butter, to clarify it – it is so complex to make even the simplest things.
“With Benoit, you know, we know each other so it was fun to share it,” says Binoche. “What can I say? I think there was a lot of us in the film. Of course, that’s the deal as an actor. You have to bring your intimacy, you have to bring something that is beyond yourself but is also very much yours, because it becomes more personal, stronger and truer for the audience. You don’t want to ‘play’, or fake things, you want to live them.
She sees herself as transparent, the action passing through her. “I don’t know what’s coming up, I’m the spectator of what is happening in me. And sometimes the director doesn’t know what they wrote, exactly. They’re going to discover it as they’re doing it; it reveals itself in a very mysterious way. And in this story, about a couple having lived together and worked together for 20 years with Benoit and myself, who had a child 25 years before – that’s not a simple thing.
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