7/7/2023 0 Comments Amelie actress audrey![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() “For a while I drove my parents nuts pointing to buildings and monuments in my town and asking, ‘Is it taller than that? How about that? Well, how much bigger?'” “I was obsessed with calculating how big it was,” she confesses. Growing up in the small city of Montlucon, in central France, young Tautou’s only passion was to see the Eiffel Tower. Initially determined to be a primatologist, she didn’t develop an interest in the performing arts until she was well into adolescence. Tautou, who turned 23 in August, boasts a distinctively creaky voice and a pixieish ingenue demeanor that seem so ineffably right for Amelie that it’s difficult to believe that director Jean-Pierre Jeunet originally pursued British actress Emily Watson. More than 7 million French filmgoers have turned out so far to see Amelie’s adventures and the film recently captured the AGF People’s Choice Awards at the Toronto Film Fest. Tautou landed the starring role in “Le Fabuleux Destin d’Amelie Poulain,” which Miramax has shortened to “Amelie” and skedded for a Nov. Some people are named Most Promising This or That and subsequently turn out to have all the bright fresh promise of communism in the 21st century.īut Audrey Tautou (pronounced toe-two), the recipient of France’s Cesar trophy for most promising young actress, has made good on the distinction she won for her 1999 role as a credulous junior beautician in Tonie Marshall’s “Venus Beauty Institute.” ![]()
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