Eva, 38: I hate people boasting they’re happy in their 40s
WITH her velvety complexion and sultry beauty, you’d think she would be happy with her looks.
But Eva Green says that as she approaches 40 she feels insecure about growing older.
The Bond Girl, 38, revealed she was tired of smug women professing their love of being in their 30s and 40s, and said she had found it difficult to be confident in her appearance.
‘There is always that insecurity,’ she told ES Magazine. ‘ You depend on the desire of people. I read interviews with women going, “Oh, I’m soooo confident now I am in my 30s or in my 40s, I have found myself…”. Well, actually, pfft, it is difficult for an actor, or for any woman, ageing. You think, my God, will people still like me? I’ll be in my 40s soon but I always feel like I am 15.’
The French actress stars alongside Colin Farrell and Danny DeVito in Tim Burton’s remake of Disney’s Dumbo. Miss Green said she has to pinch herself every time the 60-year- old director asks to work with her – she appeared in his films Dark Shadows and Miss Peregrine’s Home For Peculiar Children.
But she denied rumours of a romance with Burton, who was with Helena Bonham Carter, mother of his two children, for 13 years until 2014. Despite months of speculation that they are a couple, she insisted: ‘He is a lovely man and I love him, but no.’
She also commented on the disgraced film producer Harvey Weinstein, whom she alleges made an inappropriate advance to her during a business meeting, leaving her feeling ‘shocked and disgusted’.
‘He was like a god,’ she explained. ‘He could make you, destroy you. You think, maybe something will change – I could win an Oscar! So the first time you meet him you feel privileged. But what happened [to him] is a miracle. There is justice.’
‘Ageing is difficult for any woman’