Isabelle Adjani reacts to the remake of Possession with Margaret Qualley
“She has crazy talent!”
Adjani in a trance, his mouth bleeding, a tentacled monster and a distressing closed session: this is the film that marked the beginning of the 80s and the career of Isabelle Adjani, Possession.
The life of a married couple turns into a nightmare when Anna leaves Mark for a more or less monstrous affair… As she descends into madness, he tries to bring her back to reality.
45 years later, Andrzej Żuławski’s cult film gets a makeover. The director of the successful franchise smileParker Finn, tackles this horror classic, with Margaret Qualley reprising the role of Isabelle Adjani and Callum Turner that of Sam Neill.
A false good idea?
In an interview given to Magazine Number (via Thomas Desroches), the actress ofKiller summer reacted to the choice of his replacement:
“When I met Margaret at a dinner a few years ago, she told me that she was more like me than she was like her mother, so it seems that this family resemblance determined the director’s choice for this character in Possession.” It’s true that the two actresses, with their jet-black hair and pale blue eyes, seem to respond to each other forty years apart…
The actress continues: “Plus, she has crazy talent!”
This role earned the interpreter of Anna the Best Actress Prize at Cannes in 1981.
A film “daring the mystical and the horror”, as she puts it, and which echoes Qualley’s interpretation in the body horror by Caroline Fargeat, The Substance. Performance which earned her a Golden Globe nomination for best supporting actress.
The French star also spoke about the very idea of filming a new version of the film:
“Today, the new cinematographic extremism has become trendy results in the remake of a film like Possession, with enlightened opportunism. Why not ?”
Currently, no release date has been announced.
