There is a new (to me!) interview/article about Mélanie during her Inglourious Basterds promotional tour up at the site popcornreel.com. You can find an excerpt below, and on a second page you can find a link to an audio clip of it.

“Do you mind if I smoke?”, Mélanie Laurent asks, cigarette in hand on a hot, sunny Sunday afternoon on the seventh floor suite of a plush hotel here. Miss Laurent, 26, has been promoting The Weinstein Company’s forthcoming movie release “Inglourious Basterds”, Quentin Tarantino’s new film which trains an hysterical and operatic eye on defeating Hitler and his Nazi regime. “Basterds” boasts a large ensemble cast, and Miss Laurent, a lively, loquacious and lithe being whose cheeriness may just rival the immense self-confidence she possesses, has a key role as Shosanna Dreyfus, a brave, bold and beautiful heroine facing significant obstacles during the two-and-a-half-hour epic comedy-drama.

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