“I have always worn my hair short and walked a certain way at night so I am not attacked,” says Rouselle. 'I'm personally very disturbed, enraged, hurt by the fact that for real in life, as women, we are constantly designated victims' And, too often, to the female experience. It was cathartic.”įor both director and star, a major theme of Titane is the violence that is innate to the female body. And actually, since I’ve done the film, I haven’t had that nightmare anymore. And that I needed to do something with it. While I was very disturbed by it, I was also thinking that is a very strong image. And I was always very disturbed by that nightmare because I think somehow the proximity between this pure act of life and living and these dead metal parts was shocking. “It was a dream that traumatised me, in which I was in labour, and I was giving birth to parts of an engine. “That collision between flesh and metal, but it’s not just flesh, more like internal organs that comes from a recurring nightmare that I’ve had for a few years,” says Ducournau. Together they form a strange bond, while she straps down her swelling, pregnant body, and breasts that leak oil. On the run from the authorities, she poses as the long-missing son of a firefighter named Vincent, played by veteran French actor Vincent Lindon. Rouselle watched every episode of Killing Eve, TED Talks on serial killers, and the movies Monster and We Need to Talk About Kevin to prepare for the role of Alexia, Titane’s wild heroine who works at auto shows as an erotic performer, kills people and has sexual relations with a car. But actually, people really seemed to get it.” I honestly thought that because it tackles gender and not really wanting to be pregnant and difficult topics – that should not be difficult – but are, that people would be challenged. “Everyone seemed to agree it’s a great movie. “I thought the film was going to be way more controversial, which was not the case at all,” says Rouselle. 'That collision between flesh and metal, but it's not just flesh, more like internal organs that comes from a recurring nightmare that I've had for a few years'
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