Superb Eva Green!

She's been one of my favourite actresses out there since Casino Royale where she played the popular Vesper Lynd, James Bond's first true love!
What I could say about her is that...she loves to play different roles, women etc. All of them have always a dark side, a twisted relationship with their partners, some secrets to protect etc. Eva Green really tries to choose three-dimensional characters with a lot depth in their psychology.

I only listed the films I've seen since-gloops!- I still have to watch The Dreamers etc..

Cracks, 2009. My favourite film among all of hers. She's terrific as Miss G, a school teacher obsessed with a foreign princess-like student (Fiamma, played by Maria Valverde).

 James Bond, as Vesper Lynd. Seriously, she was amazing in her elegant outfits, her haute-couture dresses and her haughtiness. First film I saw of her! I found out Vesper was the favourite James Bond Girl of many people.

 Dark Shadows, 2012. I saw the film this year, and I really appreciate it, mostly with the tale of how the curse started because of Angélique Bouchard's craziness over Johnny Depp's character. It has to be noticed that it's the first time we can see Eva as a blond woman (her real hair colour).

 Womb. Seriously, this film...scared me. It was well-done enough, and the story doesn't let the watcher indifferent. However, I had shivers run down my spine. I bet the film isn't to make you feel at ease. Once again, Eva Green plays an "outsider" (Rebecca), a woman completely different from the others and who's forever haunted by her first love.

 Kingdom of Heaven. She played Sybil, the hero's love interest played by Orlando Bloom. The chemistry between the two actors does transmit on screen, and Eva had the most gorgeous blue eyes!

 

The Golden Compass  where she played a witch. I don't really remember her performance since I haven't seen the film for a very long time. Though, the role suits her fine, since she has that kind of mysterious charm that film directors seem to love about her.

You probably wonder why I'm speaking of Eva Green in a blog dedicated to Marie-Antoinette and other historical characters mainly. Well, the answer is simple: Benoît Jacquot, film director of Farewell, My Queen (original title: Les Adieux à La Reine from Chantal Thomas' novel), 2012, first wanted Eva Green to play Marie Antoinette!! How great it would have been.

Unfortunately, it turned out differently. In an interview in French, he explains: "I had first thought about Eva Green, an actress I like very much, to play the Queen linked in an organic way to the image of the "Foreigner", the "Austrian", but Eva had to go shoot a film by Tim Burton."

In the end, German-born Diane Kruger was chosen to play the unhappy queen.

A slight resemblance with Versailles no Bara (Lady Oscar)'s Marie-Antoinette, no? ;)









Honestly, I wonder how the film would have looked like with Eva Green playing the Queen. I haven't seen Diane Kruger's performance yet so I can't really judge her work (I appreciated her in Inglorious Basterds). But with Eva's acting skills, the fact she's a natural blond (a dark blond) so she could pull of the blond locks, and that she already played a mother (though...a very scary one) and her obvious interest in playing characters with deep psychology, I'm sure her performance would have been a success, too.

Nevertheless I think she could play Empress Elisabeth of Austria-Hungary as well. At least, to me, they're very, very much look alike. People, give her a new dark, twisted Sissi-scenario as soon as possible!