Chloë Sevigny’s latest movie was filmed on the French Riviera, but that wasn’t the best part – it was her family set.
Talking to her Bonjour Tristesse cast at the Toronto International Film Festival on Friday, Sept. 6, Sevigny, 49, says she felt right at home bringing her then-three-year-old son to the international shoot.
Director Durga Chew-Bose brought her young child, as well as several female producers. “The children were on the set, walking around a bit,” says Sevigny, who is the mother of Vanja, who is now 4 years old with her husband Siniša Mačković. “It was really just a warm environment.”
“I think it’s becoming more and more difficult for me to leave,” she continues about having to leave Vanja. “But now he’s starting to understand that I’m an actor. He knows if I’m on set. He likes trailers. He likes craft services. Whenever I’m doing a photo shoot, he says, ‘Are you behaving well?’ I say, ‘It’s next door,'” laughs the style icon.
Bonjour Tristessean adaptation of the 1954 novel, follows a young woman (Lily McInerny) who spends the summer in the sun with her father (Claes Bang) and his girlfriend (Nailia Harzoune), who is not that much older than her. Vacation plans are disrupted when a chic fashion designer and friend of her late mother (Sevigny) comes to visit.
Chloe Sevigny attends the premiere of “Bonjour Tristesse” with the cast.
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“I think as a person who’s getting older, just playing an elegant character like this, who really knows himself and is very confident and measured — was an opportunity for me as an actor to play a different color that I don’t get to play very often,” says Sevigny, who she’s next starring in a Ryan Murphy movie Monsters: The Story of Lyle and Erik Menendez.
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After directing several short films, Sevigny, who first rose to fame at the age of 20 after landing the role in 1995. childrenhe was also ready to support Chew-Bose’s directorial debut.
“Me [also] had these wonderful producers, female producers, it seemed like all these babies were on set,” she says. “It felt like the right kind of lair, which I like and it’s rare. I mean, you’re on set so often when you’re surrounded by men as creatives, as runners, as actors. So the mixed alchemy of that was really appealing to me as well.”
Bonjour Tristesse is currently on sale at the Toronto International Film Festival, which runs until September 15th.
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