When Isabelle Huppert, arguably the world’s greatest screen actress, needs a minute to send a text message before your interview, you comply. Not necessarily out of deference or politeness (though those things, too), but because of the dazzling daydream potential. Is she sending script notes to Michael Haneke, planning their next collaboration? you may think. Who’s she arranging a lunch date with? I guess it can’t be Claude Chabrol… And on and on.
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Isabelle Huppert on White Material, Missing Chabrol, and the Joys of Law & Order: SVU