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I like to take these unusual characters and then make them as normal as possible, because we all know that the tragedy and the abnormal always hides itself behind the normal.
Isabelle Huppert
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Isabelle Huppert
Age: 71
Born: 1953
Born: March 16
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Isabelle Anne Madeleine Huppert
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I know some real intellectual people who might laugh, very close friends who might laugh when I'm said to be an intellectual.
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I don't think I'm that intellectual.
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But it wasn't just a technical approach towards the piano, studying the music for this film was also a way of approaching the soul of the film, because the film is really about the soul of Schubert and the soul of Bach.
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