Doesn’t know in person Brigitte Bardot but since she was a teenager they always tell her that she looks like her. At 24 years old and with her first protagonist, Julia De Nunez has the “honor” and “thrill” of interpreting this myth in ‘bardot‘, the miniseries that arrives this Thursday on SundanceTV.
The Franco-Argentine actress says that He does not remember how he discovered the French legend of the 60s. “I was watching my parents’ DVDs and I came across the cover of ‘And God created woman’. When I saw it, magnificent, it awakened something indefinable in me. In fact, I discovered sensuality”.
“From then on I became interested in his music and his films, but I was not aware of the impact he had had on his time until now that I have made it.”recognize.
Since she was a teenager, Bardot dedicated her life to acting and singing until she retired from the stage in 1973 to focus on animal activism.
Tired of being asked about her past, The actress gave the green light to this biographical project only because the filmmaker Danièle Thompson was going to do it.nominated for an Oscar for ‘Cousin, Cousine’, along with her son Christopher, also a filmmaker.
“The director wrote to Brigitte asking for permission to make a series about her beginnings in cinema. He did not want her to participate in the creative process, but she did want to be respectful of the figure she was going to x-ray. She said yes, and that’s how the series was born.”explains the actress.
He also regrets not having heard from Bardot, or even knowing if he liked her performance or if he has seen it. “I know nothing”says De Núñez about a six-episode series that has already premiered in France.
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