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Audrey Tautou: 'I didn't want this power'

'I am not super-attached to my career,” Audrey Tautou says in that sultry, Gallic voice of hers, a glint of recklessness in her big brown eyes. “I have several plan Bs: I want to become a sailor; I like to draw; I would love to learn many things, but I don’t have time…” She trails off, leaving an uncertain silence hanging over the Kensington hotel room where we’ve met to discuss her latest film, a delightful comic confection called Beautiful Lies. “That is the problem, you know,” she continues, more carefully. “That is the reason why I will quit acting very soon.” She lets out a strange little laugh, a creaky exhalation, as if her own admission has taken her by surprise.

Until I met her, I had always placed Tautou, now 32 but with the slender frame and flawless complexion of a girl half her age, among that rare group of French film actresses – the likes of Catherine Deneuve, Juliette Binoche, and most recently Marion Cotillard – with the talent, ambition and, well, je ne sais quoi to earn them a lasting place in the international consciousness. These are women who steal the hearts of even those people who have little interest in either France or film and seem destined to be admired, observed and idolised throughout their lives.

Tautou printed her own invitation to that club 10 years ago when, with a performance of irresistible charm, she helped Jean-Pierre Jeunet’s Amélie become the most successful French film of all time, taking more than £105  million around the world. Five years later, she would play to an even wider audience, opposite Tom Hanks in The Da Vinci Code, Ron Howard’s mega-budget adaptation of Dan Brown’s international bestseller. She has appeared in only three features since, all French.

Simply dressed today in a striped Breton top and jeans, Tautou says she can still recall the peculiar feeling of being part of The Da Vinci Code’s “big, big machine”. She’ll never forget her first taste of the kind of giddy power that only a starring role in a Hollywood blockbuster can lend an actress; nor how queasy it made her feel. “I didn’t want to have this power,” she says, with a shrug. “I would rather have freedom; and to find that you have to stop being in big, exposed movies. I don’t surf on the big waves. When I see them coming, I take my board and go straight back to the beach.

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