"I was in many of Jean-Luc's movies, but I wasn't in Le Mépris. I think that he [Godard] really wanted to do a film with Brigitte Bardot [laughs], and, of course, I can understand that! Originally the film's producers Carlo Ponti and Georges de Beauregard wanted Monica Vitti for the part, and Jean-Luc travelled to Rome to ask her, but she wasn't really into it. Anyway, Bardot was the most beautiful woman in the world at that time and so it seemed perfect for her to play Camille [Javal –…
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