Famke Janssen’s Directorial Debut at Cannes Film Festival – PHOTOS
Famke Janssen’s Directorial Debut at Cannes Film Festival
The always beautiful Famke Janssen appeared at Day 3 of the Cannes Film Festival at the American Pavillion for her directorial debut in the movie ‘Bringing Up Bobby’. The film stars Milla Jovovich (the con artist), Bill Pullman and Marcia Cross in the movie that Janssen also wrote, which according to imdb:
Is the story of a European con-artist and her son Bobby, who find themselves in Oklahoma in an effort to escape her past and build a better future.
We would have seen Janssen directing movies long before this one, but a little thing like a James Bond film got in the way:
I had written a bunch of scripts, and one screenplay got me into the AFI Film School,” It all happened at the same time, and when I opted for ‘Goldeneye,’ my career just ended up going in that direction,”
How did an actress who was making her first ever directorial debut get the financing? She made a ‘director’s book’:
”which illustrated how I viewed the film, which really helped,” she says. “So not only did I write the script, but I had a clear vision of how I wanted to shoot the film, and that ultimately gave people the confidence to give me the money to make it.”
Bringing Up Bobby debuts sometime this year but a specific date has not been set.
Photos: WENN
