Has a fling with Hollywood brought out the seductress in Audrey Tautou?
Watch the Priceless trailer When Audrey Tautou was invited to audition for the 2006 blockbuster The Da Vinci Code, she asked if she could take a photograph of its director, Ron Howard, and leading man, Tom Hanks – just so she could prove she had actually met them. “I don’t think I was at the top of Ron’s list, and when he was seeing people, I didn’t think there’d be any point in me travelling all that way when I wasn’t suitable,” she says. “I really wasn’t sure it would happen.” She laughs. “I have never been a self-confident person.” Surely her confidence has grown as she’s got older and enjoyed critical and commercial acclaim? “No, no, it hasn’t, doctor!” A quick smile and a raised eyebrow temper her stab at sarcasm. Ordinarily, the French actress finds interviews an uncomfortable process; when promoting The Da Vinci Code she regularly bristled like an irritable hedgehog. Her English, delivered with a musical lilt, has vastly improved in the meantime, and today she seems warm, open,
