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Comments (0)The French-Jewish actress Melanie Laurent turned heads in Quentin Tarantino’s “Inglorious Basterds,” and it looks like her star will continue to rise with her latest release, “The Concert.”
The story is about a former Bolshoi conductor whose career ended abruptly when he was publicly criticized for including Jewish performers in his group. Now, he’s a janitor where the Bolshoi perform, and he decides to reassemble his former musicians and head to Paris, pretending to be the Bolshoi.
The lovely, 27-year-old Laurent – the granddaughter of a Holocaust survivor who is of Ashkenazic and Tunisian Sephardic descent—plays a famous violinist named Anne-Marie Jacquet.
“I used to play piano when I was 5 and then I stopped, but the challenge of the violin was really, really great for me because it was hard,” Laurent told Cinema Blend. “But I had a lot of fun doing this and the training was really interesting.”
Laurent actually had to learn how to play the fiddle, but only with her left hand. “I just loved being on stage and pretending I’m a violinist,” she said. “It was an amazing moment. I remember we worked on that scene for almost two weeks and I didn’t want to leave. I could stay forever on stage.”
Meanwhile, Laurent is working on an album with Irish singer-songwriter Damien Rice. “I have a studio in my house and I’m singing everyday.” She added, “I hope I’m going to be on tour in the U.S. with that record.”
Meanwhile, Laurent is making a few indie films, mainly in France, but wants to return to Hollywood someday.
“That experience was just a dream, so yeah, if I could live another dream, I’m ready for that,” she said of “Inglorious Basterds.”