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‘I’d Better Watch Out or I’m Gonna Fall in Love With This Guy’
Juliette Binoche and Ralph Fiennes reflect on 30 years of sharing scenes, frustrations, wine bottles, and hotel-room walls.
Binoche and Fiennes have co-starred in three films over the course of 32 years: Peter Kosminsky’s critically maligned 1992 adaptation of Wuthering Heights, as the star-crossed Cathy and Heathcliff; the beloved, Oscar-winning epic The English Patient, as the gentle, grieving nurse Hana and her tormented patient Laszlo de Almasy; and on December 6, in The Return, Uberto Pasolini’s take on The Odyssey, as a particularly grizzled, brooding Odysseus who comes back to Ithaca after the Trojan War and cannot face his lonely wife, Penelope. Fiennes is described as follows in one 1995 piece in the Los Angeles Times, titled “Cerebral Vortex”: “As the reluctant promoter for his films Schindler’s List(1993), Quiz Show(1994) and now Strange Days(which opened Friday) begins to speak about his rapid rise to Hollywood’s coveted elite, he unconsciously pulls two throw pillows close and clutches them, creating a sort of fortress around himself. He talks in hushed, proper-sounding British, addressing no one in particular as he stares straight ahead at a television that is not turned on.” In a 1995 piece on Binoche in Scotland on Sunday, she gamely challenges the interviewer when he asks her if she “still feels French”: “Hotheaded, passionate?
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