"My feet are the most wonderful thing about me"
ChroniquesDuVasteMonde WOMAN: You are one of the most sexy actresses of your generation!
Charlotte Rampling: Is that flattering?
ChroniquesDuVasteMonde WOMAN: You ask me?
Charlotte Rampling: I can not really begin with that, I never found myself particularly exciting, even though I showed more of my body in front of the camera than many might want to see. What I can understand well. I thought I was an unappealing English girl at the time.
ChroniquesDuVasteMonde WOMAN: After all, you were in the miniskirt on the famous Carnaby Street, danced in the clubs through the nights and had? I quote? "countless lovers"!
Charlotte Rampling: Understand: The miniskirt, created by Mary Quant, was cool then, and with my elevator, in truth, I just masked my insecurity.
ChroniquesDuVasteMonde WOMAN: And what was behind the "countless lovers"?
Charlotte Rampling: Seducing men was an experiment for me to see how far my power goes.
ChroniquesDuVasteMonde WOMAN: You mean your sexual power?
Charlotte Rampling: Yes. It is probably the most important power we have! You men are pretty much at the mercy of us women. We can cast you under our spell? a planned seduction, you may be able to withdraw once or twice. In the end, we women are the winners! We should always keep that in mind. Especially as we get older. Because this knowledge of our sexual power strengthens our self-confidence even when we have a few more wrinkles.
Seducing men was an experiment.
ChroniquesDuVasteMonde WOMAN: So sex is a weapon?
Charlotte Rampling: A weapon, you say it. One of the sharpest weapons we have. One that gives us women our feminine power. As far as I am concerned, although I found myself not particularly attractive, I was nevertheless aware of my erotic charisma very early on.
ChroniquesDuVasteMonde WOMAN: Moral did not matter?
Charlotte Rampling: I have a conscience, if that's what you mean. Finally, I visited a convent school near the French Fontainebleau, where we were drilled on the moral values again and again.
ChroniquesDuVasteMonde WOMAN: What was the reason for you to oppose it?
Charlotte Rampling: Did I do that?
ChroniquesDuVasteMonde WOMAN: Did you live with two men at the same time? is that your idea of morality?
Charlotte Rampling: Stop it! In my wild time, it's been a long time, I was a young hop, pretty freaky.
ChroniquesDuVasteMonde WOMAN: Often drunk?
Charlotte Rampling: Often.
ChroniquesDuVasteMonde WOMAN: Did you tell your two sons, David and Barnaby, of this time?
Charlotte Rampling: But of course. If we want to be taken seriously as parents in our education, we just have to be honest. I told my sons everything from my past, without soft filter, showed them photos of that time.
ChroniquesDuVasteMonde WOMAN: And when did you realize that her mother loved millions of people? Oh well ? revealing, and how did you cope?
Charlotte Rampling: So I introduced you to my? Night porter? not before, when they were little? To see one's mother bare-headed would have been too great a shock for her. But I did not wait too long for her to be enlightened in an ugly way by any classmates? were. At some point, when they asked me about my work, I explained to them what the actress's job meant to me and how I play a role, if taken seriously.
ChroniquesDuVasteMonde WOMAN: How did you react to your notorious love scene with a chimpanzee from the movie "Max, My Love"?
Charlotte Rampling: They laughed themselves half dead.
ChroniquesDuVasteMonde WOMAN: Was it really hard for you to kiss a monkey?
Charlotte Rampling: I just imagined, I kiss Paul Newman.
Charlotte Rampling is in girls who have their 61st birthday behind them
ChroniquesDuVasteMonde WOMAN: After dozens of international feature films and two failed marriages: how do you see yourself today?
Charlotte Rampling: As still not very attractive, now old girl who has her 61st birthday behind her. By the way, there was not much to celebrate. My doctor says: From 30, every woman is a sinking ship.
ChroniquesDuVasteMonde WOMAN: Not very charming.
Charlotte Rampling: But there is a lot of truth in it.
ChroniquesDuVasteMonde WOMAN: Do you feel like a sinking ship?
Charlotte Rampling: Sometimes yes, sometimes no, mostly yes!
ChroniquesDuVasteMonde WOMAN: Is there a man in your life?
Charlotte Rampling: If it did not exist, I would have fallen for my depression for a long time.
ChroniquesDuVasteMonde WOMAN: Why do you have depression?
Charlotte Rampling: Because in my life tragedies happened again and again. I have repeatedly asked myself, "Why is that so, why is it just me?"
ChroniquesDuVasteMonde WOMAN: Did you play neurotic women so often to compensate for your depression in front of the camera?
Charlotte Rampling: Yes, you can say that. I felt many roles as a kind of medicine. As a good way to live out my feelings in all radicalism.
ChroniquesDuVasteMonde WOMAN: Could not a psychiatrist help?
Charlotte Rampling: That was not necessary, because I had my roles, which helped me on and on.
ChroniquesDuVasteMonde WOMAN: When you act like you do in your roles, is there no limit? They often showed up without it.
Charlotte Rampling: I've always done what the role I was playing demanded. At least when it was not just about showing bare skin to incite men. So I have no reason to be ashamed of myself in retrospect today.
ChroniquesDuVasteMonde WOMAN: Your father, who worked as an officer at NATO, may not have liked that. Did not you want to wipe your strict dad with it?
Charlotte Rampling: Yes, certainly! Occasionally, with some glee, I thought about what my dad would hear from his sports friends about his bad daughter next Sunday at the golf course. Much of my father did not like what I did from the start.
I suffered physically when my sister left me.
ChroniquesDuVasteMonde WOMAN: Also that you performed in London clubs with your sister Sarah? at the age of 16?
Charlotte Rampling: It was incredibly against the grain. But even as a young girl, I understood how to put my head through it. Besides, we did not dance or strip, just sang.
ChroniquesDuVasteMonde WOMAN: Why did not he just impose a house ban?
Charlotte Rampling: He finally did that when he found out that we had been offered a contract to Colonel Sisters. It was over with funny. I grumbled? and sent secretly taken photos of me to various model agencies. My sister Sarah helped me with it.
ChroniquesDuVasteMonde WOMAN: You loved Sarah very much. , ,
Charlotte Rampling:. , , we were like Siamese twins. That's why I suffered not only emotionally, but also physically, when she left me.
ChroniquesDuVasteMonde WOMAN: You are still not so far as to say that your sister died at the age of just 23.
Charlotte Rampling: Maybe I'm still not over the tragedy of my life.
ChroniquesDuVasteMonde WOMAN: How did you deal with the loss of your sister?
Charlotte Rampling: At that time I fled to the loneliness of the Afghan plateau. I wanted to destroy myself there. I ate sand to stifle, intentionally drinking nothing for a long time to die of thirst. I just wanted to die? just like Sarah. But the will to survive implanted in us humans won. I did not die, just got sick. When I felt better, I sought comfort from Tibetan monks in a monastery in Scotland.
ChroniquesDuVasteMonde WOMAN: And did this timeout help you? Did you find comfort?
Charlotte Rampling: Yes, but it took time. After all, I learned to remember, to calm down. The monks taught me meditation. I began to paint, to sculpt, to distract myself and not to fight God's fate.
ChroniquesDuVasteMonde WOMAN: Could you still believe?
Charlotte Rampling: I hated God. How could he allow my sister to commit suicide instead of coming to me with her problems so I could help her solve them?
ChroniquesDuVasteMonde WOMAN: What is your relationship with God today?
Charlotte Rampling: I have made peace with him.
ChroniquesDuVasteMonde WOMAN: What does that mean?
Charlotte Rampling: It means that I accept that as a human you can not understand much. Why something happens in life, what you did not expect, hoped, and certainly did not deserve.
ChroniquesDuVasteMonde WOMAN: Were you expecting to be named one of the 100 sexiest women in the world eight years ago? What is so wonderful about you?
Charlotte Rampling: My feet.
ChroniquesDuVasteMonde WOMAN: If I remember correctly, your feet are just what we barely saw in the cinema.
Charlotte Rampling: Right. They did not see them any more than the jury, which gave me this flattering title. I have no idea what made me deserve it.
ChroniquesDuVasteMonde WOMAN: Who is allowed to see your feet?
Charlotte Rampling: Only the man I love.
ChroniquesDuVasteMonde WOMAN: Is he a foot fetishist?
Charlotte Rampling: Do you have to be a fetishist to admit that something is wonderful?
ChroniquesDuVasteMonde WOMAN: Your feet are so wonderful!
Charlotte Rampling: That's right. Absolutely wonderful!
ChroniquesDuVasteMonde WOMAN: Your new partner likes your feet. , , What else is there to say about him?
Charlotte Rampling: I live with him. Here in this Parisian apartment where we are sitting now. He is nine years younger, but looks older than me, has nothing to do with film and works for an international group? in the background. Unlike me he shies the spotlight.
ChroniquesDuVasteMonde WOMAN: Would you like to marry again?
Charlotte Rampling: No. Or say: It does not have to be. I rehearsed it twice already. I can do it now and know how to do it.
BIOGRAPHY Charlotte Rampling was born on February 5, 1946 in Sturmer / Essex, England. Her father was a career officer, the mother factory heir. Her older sister Sarah took her own life in 1966. Previously, both appeared as singers in London clubs. Later, Charlotte Rampling studied at the London drama school The Royal Court. She played her first roles in Italy, as she found the then English cinema superficial. After politically controversial films such as "The damned" by Luchino Visconti or "The Nachportier" by Liliana Cavani came offers from Hollywood. Nevertheless, Charlotte Rampling remained in Europe and married the French musician Jean-Michel Jarre, with whom she stayed for 20 years. Son Barnaby (35) brought her into the marriage, son David (30) comes from this connection. There was silence about rampling in the nineties. In 2003 she celebrated a big comeback: For "Swimming Pool"? S gave the European Film Award. From August 9, Charlotte Rampling will be seen in "Angel", a new film by François Ozon.
