WE’RE BUILDING IT. WE’LL SEE IF THEY COME

We worked till 9pm last night, then I had a dinner at a friends house, then we worked American hours this morning!!! The one and only time for that and, had I know, I would never have accepted a dinner. Pickup at 7:30 am so I had to get up at 6am and there was lots of traffic and, after 4 hours sleep I was whacked. Still, we laughed during the breaks in the dinner scene till tears were running down my checks. You know how, sometimes, when you’re whacked you get all giddy? All of us actors are enjoying each other a lot. In fact, we’re all going to Guy’s birthday party tomorrow (Saturday) night at his house. We’ll also be celebrating Daniel’s birthday cause it was earlier this week—as a blog commenter informed me. (Thanks!).

See, in the U.S. The usual hours are like 8:30am to 6 or 7pm. Very uncivilized cause you can’t really go out for dinner or anything. In France they usually start around 2pm and work till 9 or 10pm. You can go out and sleep in!!

Maybe I’ll send photos from Guy’s tomorrow night. I will spend this weekend writing my book cause a week from tonight Richard will arrive. No more writing then!

See you next time!

Tulea likes to read the French newspaper, Le Monde

Our first dinner together after my character and her husband (Pierre Richard) moves in to the home of Geraldine and Guy

a scene where Claude, my lover from 40 years ago, photographs me striking sexy poses

She's a true clown, Geraldine. Wonder where that comes from!!!!

We've succeeded in putting in a pool over the objections of Guy who wants to keep his vegetable garden (though he never tended it).

one more clown...Daniel and Pierre

Margaux, 3rd assistant

All of us looking at the pool bring dug before breakfast

a shishkibob of females--Karina, Fabienne, Kesso and moi

en route home tonight. A huge billboard of Alan Delon...the way he looked when I worked with him early 60s

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  1. Fabulous photos!

    Thank you for sharing

  2. Really awesome pics..it’s great to have the opportunity to see pictures that you don’t normally see.You are looking excellent Jane.

  3. Wow looks like they were actually digging up for a real pool in the garden of the house that the production is renting for the shooting.I guess it was part of the deal wuth the owners.
    I love the picture of all of you looking down at the pool being dug.Who would have thought big stars like you guys look just like us in the morning LOL!Very reassuring!Merçi Jane.

    Jeanne

  4. Alan Delon is very gorgeous then and I imagine very handsome today . . .

  5. So nice to see Tulea’s French has improved ,so as to read read the newspapers,I enjoy Le Monde as well. I have to say that the photo of you with the black japanese kimono and Tulea in lap, above , one of the best I have see, truly nice work.
    The more I see of this small group of French actors and Artist , the more I seem to like them , a very nice set Les acteurs français you have about. I’m sure that will carry to the film as well,the feeling of good will.

  6. Jane, you look beautiful! Thanks for sharing behind the scenes on your film.

    Jen in TX

  7. Enjoying all the pics of the film in process–you all seem to be having lots of fun.

    G. Chaplin seems to look more like her father as she gets older.

    Also like the pic of you and Tulea–seems like a more demure version of that pic of you from you in the 60s (Life magazine?)where you where on a beach and had arms and legs artfully posed.

    Who knew a dog and a bathrobe could be just as sexy?

  8. very nice artistic photo of you sitting with tulea above your knees.

  9. Jane,

    The photo of you and Tulea together is one of the best yet. The Robe is very much like one Rue on the “Golden Girls” would wear. She was a big part of the laugh track in our home – she will be missed.

    Don’t know if you have read “Beach Music” by Pat Conroy. I laughed when I read the way a character who is a Hollywood producer described foreign films while visiting a friend in Venice. He was very pompus but he did say there was lots of eating in them. And there you are all having dinner.

  10. Dear Jane you look so beautiful in those pictures.
    Thankyou for sharing Paris with us.

  11. Dear Jane~compare the french on-set call to US, the french and indeed so civilized! You can see the closeness of the actors here-truly looks like you all are respectful of ea other with the importance of having good times working together. The owners of this house are actually letting their garden be dug up with heavy mechinery for THE POOL!? Wowzie! Little miss tulea looks very fetching upon your knees. Lady b does this pose w me too. People see it and burst out laughing. That’s a good thing, no?! Get some rest! Your beau is soon to arrive! Xoxo m&lb

  12. Do the French usually film a movie in sequence?

    • No, just like elsewhere, partly sequence partly not.

  13. Hi Jane,

    You are doing a great job with keeping us up-to-date on your interesting life–your photos look good and add alot. The wedding–excelent!

    Love your taupe ballet flats (or are they heels?). Where did you find them? Don’t say Paris, I just arrived home from there.

    Saw the photo show at Hotel DeVille but that was all. So we appreciated your photos of the interior. When we were in Paris awhile back, during the days of Patrimonie (every Sept.), we didn’t have time to get to HD.

    Gail (Nambe, NM)

    • The “taupe” flats (they are actually a sort of gun mettle–silver gray–are Repetto.

  14. I like the Field of Dreams reference. The photographs from the other post of the background to the filming, rigs, etc made me smile.

    The picture of you seated alone is adorable. Hope your book is coming along.

  15. Tulea est drôle devant le journal !! Je trouve qu’il y a de beaux arbres dans ce jardin. je suppose que c’est dans la banlieu de Paris ?… du côté de Versailles ? On sent qu’il y a une bonne ambiance entre vous tous, çà doit être sympa.

  16. Everyone seems to be relaxed with each other which is VERY nice! I like seeing Geraldine’s giddy side!:) Isn’t it fun when you can relax being around the other actors and be silly, if you want to be? I wonder how often that happens with actors when they are making a movie together!? It seems like creativity would flow more easily when actors are relaxed with each other!

    I love it when you describe yourself laughing until tears are coming down your checks! I can almost “hear” you laughing whenever I read that! That shows you are having some great, funny times with everyone!:) Yea!!

    I have to tell you, Jane, that picture of you and Tulea is one of the best pictures I’ve seen of you two!! Sweet Tulea….we never get tired of seeing her!! You’ve worked so hard on your book! You must be close to finishing it at this time!? Good luck with your writing!!:)

    Thanks again for for all the interesting details about making this movie as well as the photos!!

  17. This is the loveliest blog I have ever read. You are so open, generous, and informative. It’s great the way you take your readers on a journey with your wonderful pictures, anecdotes, and behind-the-scenes explanation of a movie being made. You write as if you’re sitting down to tea with a friend…like, “Oh, I forgot to tell you this!” The on-set atmosphere, all the cast and crew… all wonderful. Thanks, Jane.

  18. >>I have to tell you, Jane, that picture of you and Tulea is one of the best pictures I’ve seen of you two!<<

    I thought the same thing when I looked at it. Wonderful picture.

    The pictures of Geraldine "clowning" were among my favorites. I could see her father.

    Thank you for taking the time to share your photos and stories. It's one of my treats to read your blog, coco

  19. I wish you would drop this insistent PC habit of calling female actresses “actors”. Once in a while you forget your PC zeal and you revert to using “actress”. And then, silently, I say bravo.

    But then your ideological bent returns and we’re stuck with this strange use of the noun “actors” for females. Do we really call Elizabeth II “king” of England. Was Diana “prince Diana?” Why do you want to submit to the male version of a noun to qualify a female? To deny that she is a woman? And assert that she is a man in disguise. And let’s not fool ourselves, calling females “actors” is not going to get them more jobs.
    “Actress” is a lovely word, and, one may argue, more euphonious than “actor”, with its brutish and aggressive “or” ending.
    The reverse of this attitude would be to call all men of the theater “actresses”, why not? Transvestites might prefer this use of the language.

    I understand perfectly where you come from and what obedience you want to show to some ideological principles.
    But it is a distortion of the language, and it diminishes the beauty and variety of our perception of the world as reflected in the variety of the language.
    This is simply manipulating the language in order to impose a legalistic view that women are the same as men, and actresses are in fact actors. But equality of rights is an abstract value for society, in fact modern Western society. We cannot confuse “legal rights” with the variety of our effective perceptive experience.
    In the same vein, do we want to eliminate the words “woman”, “female,” “girl”, etc, and all trace of feminity? Yes, Big Brother can pass laws about this, but the language will resurrect the concepts. Some societies are more radical, and prefer to kill baby girls. Until they find out that the species cannot go on without real females.
    Yes, we could become activists for gorillas and call all humans “apes”, etc…But this would be again an artificial exercise of our brain cortex wanting to overrule the reality of human perception which is registered by different brain areas. Children are not adults, girls are not boys, and dogs, much as we love them, are not people.

    The eyes can’t be fooled by the cortex: actresses do exist and have a right to be recognized as such and not confused with actors. In reality, we have too many actors already, and not enough quality “actresses”. We do not wish to lose the few actresses we have only to increase the heavy ranks of “actors”.
    Not a PC view, certainly, but an honest respect of the human experience. And a more honest respect of the value of women and actresses.
    ROO.BOOKAROO

  20. I like the billboard of Mr D. Would like that in my flat! Yummo. Paris is wonderful, hey? Glad to see you are enjoying yourself. You look great. Cheers from Downunder.

  21. I wanna live in that lovely house! 🙂

  22. Hi Jane,
    How did you like working with Delon? I’ve read so many stories about him. He sure was gorgeous.

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