- People tell me I'm confident.
I'm not that confident.
I'm just not, I couldn't be bothered
by what people think of me now.
Hi, I'm Philippine Lorey-Beaulieu
and I am here to say it all, maybe.
My father was an actor.
I grew up in a super artistic household
so I think it grew on me.
So it wasn't like snap.
I want to be an actress.
Yeah, I think I started by wanting to be like a dancer
when I was six years old.
When I was like 12 or 13, I saw "Cabaret"
and I was crazy of Liza Minelli and the whole film.
So I realized that dancing
and singing also had to do with acting
and I started realizing that acting was interesting.
I think I really said I wanna be an actress
when I was like 15 or something like that.
I remember the first time I got a part in a film.
I was very young.
I did a casting with Roger Vadim who was married,
not at that time but had been married to Jane Fonda,
Brigitte Bardot and so I was quite impressed.
Not that I compare myself to these women at all
'cause they're like above all standards
but I remember doing this
and when I got the news from my agent,
I really, I couldn't believe it.
It was my not only my first part as an actor
I was, I had the, like the lead role in the film.
So it was a big thing.
It was a huge thing actually.
Where do I find inspiration in my roles?
Well, it depends on the part.
It's people around me but it's also,
sometimes it can be an animal, it can be a plant,
the storm can be an inspiration for a character or fire
and it's quite nice.
It's quite interesting and fun
to put together all these things
and try to make sense of them.
I don't know how they come.
They come when the character comes, these images come
and then I just stick with them
and try to let them work through me
and see what they inspire.
You know, what they bring to my acting sometimes nothing
and sometimes surprises.
Who do I turn to for advice when I need it?
Well, I have good friends who I call really,
or the person that really I love talking to is my daughter.
We have a relationship that's really close
and I know she calls me
when she needs some deep advice about stuff
and I call her when I need some deep advice.
I don't tell her that though
'cause I don't want to put any weight on her shoulders
but she always comes to me and says,
mom you know what do this and that,
and you should not think that and that, and I don't know.
And she has this wonderful moments of inspiration
to tell me how to get out of some kind of dark maze
I have in my head that doesn't make me progress or whatever.
And she's quite talented for that.
And I love her very much and I trust her so much
that yeah, so she's a good person to turn to.
The key to my confidence.
I think now it's, I don't know if I'm that confident.
I look confident, but the key now is I think it's aging.
You start not giving a damn about anything anymore.
You're much less concerned about your image
and yourself and you are more concerned about other people
and the world around you.
There was a switch at a certain point
so that makes me much more confident.
It's like a relief, not to think about myself anymore.
When you're a younger actor you're so, you know,
scared not to be loved.
I don't care if people love me or not.
I'm, what I care about is am I able to love people?
That's my main problem now.
Are we able to love each other?
That thing became more important than the other problem
that was am I loved.
Well, then I think there's something naturally relaxed
and yeah, that's what I feel now.
My favorite role.
It's not because I'm doing it right now
but it Sylvie has really brought something to my life
'cause it's allowed me to investigate some stuff.
I had never played a villain before in the sense
somebody that has that kind of darker side to herself
that is on screen so it's very interesting
'cause it really allows you to also investigate
your darker side.
I don't know why Sylvie resonates with so many women.
I really don't know
maybe it's because she allows herself to be herself.
She does have a lot of boundaries
but at the same time she's really speaks her mind.
There's so many parts of herself
that she's controlling all the time
but there's something about her
even her nastiness that obviously a lot of women like
and the fact that she's very sassy too, I guess
and that I like that too.
I like the fact that she speaks her mind
and she is very doesn't have any limits.
As Philippine, which not Sylvie
but as Philippine, I can go from like shopping, to dating,
to dinner with friends, to casting in the same outfit
except red carpet, which you know, is a different story.
Like then I can have a lot of fun
then I can be very, totally outrageous.
I like that.
I like the opposites, I like either to be super simple
and classy and minimalist
or go for it like theater kind of thing.
I don't have like an outfit for each occasion.
I'm like
I love this.
Like wearing something like this,
like just a blazer and pair of pants is great,
jeans and a nice sweater great.
Dresses are for summer in my head, in my life
'cause I like to be really comfortable
and feel the breeze on your skin so you need dresses.
My skincare routine was gonna be really simple
'cause I also like to keep it simple there.
Clean up your face before you go to bed for sure.
Put a good cream on when you sleep for sure
and drink a lot of water in the morning
when you wake up a lot.
What is something that I haven't done that I wanna do?
Traveling is always what really inspires me the most.
So going to places where I haven't been
like I'd like to do like full trip discovering Japan
like in the remote areas of Japan.
I'd like to discover some really remote areas
of Australia too.
There's a lot of countries in Africa that I don't know
and I would love to go like to the Kalahari desert
in Namibia or places like that.
For me, it's like traveling.
I think I'm always scared that I won't have enough time,
I won't, I won't have like clearly
because life is, you know, we're busy
and life is not that long, but you know, I'm always like,
oh I wanna, you know, travel go there, go there go there
and discover, discover, discover.
That's my, you know,
I think if I hadn't been an actress,
I probably would've been something that would allow me
to discover the world, yeah.
The best advice that I've received
and I've given is know yourself.
I think when you know yourself, yeah,
you do not take yourself that seriously
and you get, you know, much more awareness of who you are
that's really, it's kind of important
because then your relationships become simpler.
Yeah, just know yourself
and don't take yourself too seriously.