Here’s one notable difference between France’s film industry and America’s: Vanessa Paradis is among the country’s most famous actresses (not to mention a well-known singer and the wife of Johnny Depp), and yet she had never really made a romantic comedy until Heartbreaker , opening in the States on September 10. In it, Paradis plays a cool and collected woman about to be married who meets a romantic rogue (Romain Duris) hired by her father to seduce her and break up the wedding. She told Movieline how she lobbied to make the script more romantic, how she manages to balance all her separate careers, and why she didn’t end up in the Pirates of the Caribbean role that sounded tailor-made for her.
