

It was also so interesting for me to think about it, even in this really terrible time in her life-it’s an overwhelming sadness-there are still these individual moments, almost in brackets, of bursts of laughter or something really happy. She has something dead inside, but there is still the possibility of light, of life, of liveliness and that was what I had to convey. What was it like juggling two very different takes on love? Audrey Tautou: Well it was the challenge of this character to be able to express suffering, but without making it too obvious.

W: In playing Nathalie, you have to cover two polar ends of the emotional spectrum: a die-hard romantic and a grounded realist dealing with tragedy.

Here, Tautou discusses the powers of female seduction, rumors of her impending retirement (spoiler: they’re not true) and how actresses can sometimes be a drag. Finding solace in her work, Nathalie’s lighter side is reawakened by her ungainly Swedish co-worker-a romance that leaves her friends and colleagues scratching their heads. Starting this Friday, Tautou can be seen in Delicacy as Nathalie, a doe-eyed Parisian business executive who tragically loses her soul mate after three years of marriage.
