Jean Seberg Interview

The interview covers the critical failure of Preminger's "Saint Joan" and the success of "À bout de souffle". The discussion about her psychology is eerie; Seberg committed suicide in 1979.

[@deecee4246]

Thank you. I love Jean Seberg. She was so beautiful and graceful, also extremely sensitive and intuitive. She deserved far better than what she got on planet earth. RIP, beauty.

[@frenchieseverine4514]

Yes she ended sadly her life..she committed suicide according to some people at the back of her car because of medication and alcohol.Poor woman.I think she was very gifted and sensitive,maybe too much sensitive for the world we live in. May she rest in peace..She lived a tragic life.

[@waynej2608]

@@frenchieseverine4514 she was, most likely, murdered. Bastards! She was gifted, talented, beautiful...and ultimately fucked over. Tragic.

[@Barec76]

Wayne J No, she was not murdered. Not everything is a conspiracy

[@Methilde]

​The police investigation finish by a dismissal. That means no certainty.

[@Shamol]

The interviewer was an incredible asshole, but in the end to Jean's benefit. The way she answered, so gracefully and honest, what a wonderful and beautiful human being

[@willieluncheonette]

wonderful comment! She is beautiful through and through

[@blackbird5634]

yeah, exactly! brutal interview with NO tact at all. She answers with amazing self awareness and calm. Such a tragic loss later. What a beauty, what a lovely person.

[@lepetitchat123]

Calm down people. Maybe that's how interviews were done by then. Blunt and to-the-point. People were not snowflakes about answering questions. Jean seemed very gracious here and didn't seem bothered by the interviewer.

[@mick2spic]

@@lepetitchat123 I’ve watched old interviews. They were all mostly very classy and professional. This interviewer seemed to be an asshole and it’s not problem calling that out. Call a spade a spade.

[@mariarpena2534]

Dm555 Yes, the interviewer was incredibly asshole. Shés lucky, others could have been Shakespearean - „ATooth for a Tooth, An eye for an eye“

[@morganfisherart]

Like everything else about her - Jean's spoken French is clear, lucid, natural, and utterly adorable. I believe she learned it in just a few years, as she said she couldn't speak a word of it after making Saint Joan. What a remarkable woman, destroyed by the critics, the FBI, and a series of brutal relationships. RIP, angel.

[@rahell.1319]

She did not destroy herself. She was murdered.

[@morganfisherart]

@@rahell.1319 Please point us to more information.

[@rahell.1319]

She was politically engaged I think in disturbing manner to some people. There are some suspect circumstances related to her death, which confirm this known suspicion, for instance missing greenery on her car beside cars with greenery around. Since when dead people drive a car? I'm sure You find a documentary ( Jean Seberg: American Actress from Donatello and Fosco Dubini) or a book in Your language to consider this. @@morganfisherart

[@Boona365]

yes, her accent is very apparent but her grammar is pretty much perfect.

[@headida]

I'm horrified by how inhuman the interviewer is. It's like she doesn't stop to think she's talking to a real human being but she is interviewing someone with no feelings or heart. This is uncomfortable for me to watch and points to how inhumane the press was becoming. From here we can look forward to the press hacking the phones of murdered children. RIP Jean Seberg. You where so much more than the people who presumed to judge you.

[@christophepena2212]

The interwiewer is direct,that's all!!

[@plasticweapon]

@@christophepena2212 she's a ham fisted clod who has no idea how to talk to people. if she were serving you coffee she'd slam it down on the table and spill it. no finesse.

[@christophepena2212]

@@plasticweapon the interwiewer in question ( france Roche) was very famous as interwiewer for 50 years...she has interwiewed more or less almost everyone a little bit famous, french or international (actors, directors,politicians..) between 1955 until 2ooo: she speaks to them directly without being impressed by their celebrity and their status. She's direct,that's all. But you, americans are so hypocrites...and jean seberg knew her very well.as you can see,she's not in schock,she answers what she wants wuthout problem.

[@BD-683]

Exactly... inhuman. We would define people like Hitler and Nazis as being Inhuman. And so that journalist aswell. How tragic. Unbearable to watch. Poor actress victim the cruaulty of people

[@plasticweapon]

@@christophepena2212 i can see why you like the interviewer so much . i'm not impressed by her fame, your perception of her, your bad english or your snobbish, hypocritical anti american rhetoric.

[@starcrib]

RIDICULOUS...all these years later, literally no one could play both those films EXCEPT THE FANTASTIC DELICATE AND FEROCIOUS, "JEAN SEBURG". AMAZING.

[@kiroyale]

Incredibly thoughtful responses, her grace under pressure is beautiful. Thank you so much for posting this.

[@marvinwatkins8889]

This interviewer was quite accusative and insulting!

[@user-vm6lx5yx1k]

I don't like you

[@mariarpena2534]

@marvin -it‘s called jealousy. Why grill someone very kind, and didn‘t do her any harm.

[@MrBinieam]

she is just beautiful in every way.Its heartbreaking how her life turned out at the end.I pray that she is in peace.

[@cyrilleclerc4668]

Le nom de la journaliste qui interview est France Roche, c'est vrai un peu rude avec Jean mais en fait elle est assez juste, on est tellement habitué à des interviews à la façon Michel Drucker .... Magnifique et sublime Jean Seberg, née un peu trop tôt dans une époque rigide et censurée, tu avais besoin d'une époque libre ce qui aurait peut-être pu être le cas dans les années 80-90. RIP beauty, we will love you forever.

[@drivingonthevine]

Jean Seberg's acting was way ahead of her time, she was so natural people thought she underacted, her performance in Bonjour Tristesse is brilliant, shame they didn't get her at the time.

[@Methilde]

A bout de souffle (Breathless) Godard Rosemary's baby. Polanski

[@1trschaefer78]

She was so beautiful! And very bright & articulate at only 22 years-old. Shows a high level of self-awareness. She does a great job handling the interviewer's rather blunt & insistent line of questioning... The whole St. Joan / Otto Preminger debacle was incredibly traumatic! I can only imagine how totally isolated she must have felt during that time. That she even survived it, and continued working, shows her determination to grow as an actress.

[@Vince-pm2ui]

Indeed, she's at least 8-10 years older as to what should be her maturity. She was a very bright girl.

[@rauldylan2182]

What a beatiful woman! I'm sad by the end of her life. RIP.

[@Andrey0818]

She is so elegant Even I am a girl, I am falling love.

[@willieluncheonette5843]

what a sweetheart. She was terrific in Tristesse and Breathless. Have yet to see Saint Joan

[@MarkBanks01]

thank you for this. a rare treat.

[@paulmesnager1459]

La grâce de Seberg renvoie son interlocutrice à sa vulgarité voyeuse.

[@nadiasiddiqi]

She didn't speak any French when she moved to Nice. Wow

[@hawktchr8]

She carried herself so much older than she was. Bless her heart. She was brilliant.

[@simeonzanechambers2430]

My Favorite actress 🙏🏾 Beautiful and amazing soul.

[@deadforever]

No surprise that Truffaut was the only person smart enough to notice her talent in the early days. The loss of both of them is a tragedy.

[@Methilde]

But it's Godard who hired her for A bout de souffle :)

[@skipkent]

A sharp interview beautifully and gracefully handled by Miss Seberg. This should be studied carefully by future interviewers/ees alike!

[@Channel-ld9ip]

Thank you for posting this interview. Please note however; her death was officially ruled a 'probable suicide'. That matters, as much about her final moments remain, perhaps forever, a mystery.

[@paxwallacejazz]

She and Anna Karina completely embodies that cultured brief apex of Western Civilisation the 60s especially the early 60s. Jazz at its highth of swinging sophistication and it's world weary but cultured retinue of loyal fans to include fading European royalty Leonard Bernstein, Henery Mancini, Michel Lagrand, John Barry, French New Wave Film makers, Beat Literary figures. Bossa Nova's Antonio Carlos Jobim etc etc etc .

[@sylviebertran8201]

The fact the fbi had their eyes on here because of her support of the back panthers makes me wonder about her suicide

[@Whirrrlpoool]

... or if it was really a suicide at all.

[@deads4]

They basically sabotaged her, because of her involvement in the civil rights movement. You can look it up, the FBI almost certainly played a hand in her suicide through gas lighting and defamation.

[@davidortiz3094]

@@deads4 She was killed. Simple as that. It always baffles me how people just always believe in suicides & never look deeper into it when it comes to these particular cases. Found her wrapped up in a trunk of a car. Know damn well the FBI was involved. But what the hell anyone can do about it? It's the FBI

[@IrespectUtoo]

@@davidortiz3094 no she was not killed.she f@@@ up,depressed.tell me how that they killed her?she committed suicide

[@IrespectUtoo]

@@davidortiz3094 FBI destroyed her career nothing else.

[@ricardobigi5476]

Horrid interviewer. Jean Seberg was absolutely lovely as Joan of Arc and she was perfect in BONJOUR TRISTESSE. I cannot imagine any other actress in the part. Her destiny is a tragic one and the right wingers in American politics are certainly to blame for her untimely death. She will always be remembered as one of the most beautiful and sensitive actresses of her generation. The parallels with Romy Schneider are eerie. The French loved both of them and with good reason. Those willing to say a prayer at her grave can do so at the Montparnasse Cemetery, in Paris.

[@metamorphosis67]

Ricardo Bigi Not the "right wingers" but the CIA. The CIA deliberately spread the untrue rumors that she was having a half-black baby and all that, just because she was naive enough to be sympathetic to some of the Black Panther racist party. Yes, the Black Panthers were White-Hating racists. Two wrongs have never made a right and never will. Both forced segregation and forced integration are equally wrong and equally Un-American violations of INDIVIDUAL rights. The CIA and FBI and all the rest of these scumbags are there regardless of the pathetic joke of a left-right paradigm people like you are stuck in. Get over it already. You live in a tyranny and so does most of the rest of the world. 155 central banks are controlled through the BIS and the IMF who loan EVERY LAST CENT of the entire money supplies of ALL of those 155 countries at COMPOUND interest. This is called USURY. Every heard of that? There's the elites and there's the peons who think they have a voice, because their brainwashing has convinced them that one moronic "vote" actually matters. It never has and never will. Just because they throw you a few bones off their plate too keep you baited to the hook, doesn't mean you're "free." Even one step beyond what Jefferson wrote is already tyranny and always has been: "Rightful liberty is unobstructed action according to our will within limits drawn around us by the equal rights of others. I do not add 'within the limits of the law', because law is often but the tyrant's will, and always so when it violates the rights of the individual." "No man has a natural right to commit aggression on the equal rights of another, and this is all from which the laws ought to restrain him." (Thomas Jefferson to Francis Gilmer, 1816)

[@plasticweapon]

agreed, even now her acting in saint joan and bonjour tristesse is underrated.

[@TheTamblina]

The Interviewer's tough...Jean Seberg was a wonderful, beautiful actress. Her French was great....x

[@sporez]

Those were some tough questions from the interlocutor, and it didn't really seem to bother Jean very much.

[@bojanbuck7874]

was thinking the same , maybe she was just that cool as a person...or the therapy :) :D she was cool anyway , and gived one of the best movies ever. peace!

[@CesPetitsRiens]

I am very surprised about the negative comments concerning the interviewer. She expresses negative comments about Jean, without endorsing them. She permits Jean Seberg to give her answers. There is not an ounce of aggressivity in what she says and Jean feels very comfortable. Of course, this is very different from current interviews, purely made for promotion. I am amazed by the mastering of French by Jean. It tells volumes about her intelligence.

[@SnarkierThan-U-R]

Jean was ahead of her time and on fleek

[@19Edurne]

I don't get all the comments about the interviewer being "inhuman", "accusative and insulting"... She is incisive and inquisitive -as any good interwiewer should be - but not insensitive. She does her job quite well - which is asking questions, even personal ones - but more importantly, she lets her interviewee time to answer and doesn't interrupt her every 10 seconds, which has become a rarity in this day and age. The fact that Jean Seberg responds frankly and gracefully clearly shows she doesn't feel attacked or threatened.

[@user-vm6lx5yx1k]

The interview and the interviewer were great

[@Davian67]

I love Jean Seberg. Thanks so much for posting this video. :-)

[@AlexanderArsov]

Nice to see somebody mentioning Brando's first movie. "The Men" is a powerful and unjustly neglected gem.

[@frenchieseverine4514]

She was very lovely and Jean Seberg is an icon for me. A very beautiful actress and a lady with strong convictions and desire to defend other populations like Indians of America,black people .I think that Jean was fragile however and would have needed a good psychiatrist because she married three times and had many affairs with men and her last lover was a dangerous man Ahmed Asni i guess who was a man who was violent and implied in a drugs traffic..I just think that Jean was a woman who needed love and affection but she had no respect for herself and was easily influenced . She sadly fell in love with bad individuals who took advantage of her and stole her and that 's what killed Jean.

[@Vince-pm2ui]

She had mostly many affairs when she was smashed down by depression, alcohol and pills in 77-78. Until then she had a pretty normal romantic life, with some boyfriends outside of her marriages (and she was not the one night stand type)but nothing to be shocked about given our current days standards. She managed to get out from that one year or so before her death, but then she met Asni... She should have been born 20 years later, she would probably still be alive...

[@nakedmolerat43]

My god she was so beautiful.

[@hawaiiguykailua6928]

Oh my, I fell in love by the end of the first sentence.

[@storybellz]

It's amazing what a difference a hair-style makes, because this exact hair-do is so perfect for her, that to see her hair any other way leaves her nearly unrecognizable! But, it, with this look and this lovely disposition she has here, she is one of my ideal woman, for sure! I would meet her and want to marry her just that quick!

[@LucienMarine]

Le Cinépanorama was a French television program about cinema in the 1960s, notably about the Cannes festival in France. The presenter that we see in the image is called France Roche, birth name France Roselyne Rachel Roche. She was a journalist, film critic, producer and television presenter but above all an actress since she made about twenty films only in her country. Jean Seberg was a young woman spontaneous and endearing, sincere and infinitely seductive, Jean traversed Life like a comet with an innocence and a freshness of heart and mind that was never denied. Jean rests today in the greatest modesty in the Montparnasse cemetery in Paris. I don't live in this city otherwise I will go and leave flowers for her at her resting place because I think of her a lot. In his memory!

[@SpaceCattttt]

Aww, sad Jean. It's awful what happened to her.

[@gotohoward]

The interviewer was tough. Even in a time when they glazed over negatives, she repeatedly told Seberg she failed. This hugely talented, smart, and evenly projected woman was crushed and killed by the world at large.

[@220773]

Don't know why, but here in Italy people still think Jean Seberg was French... and they pronounce her name with a French accent...

[@yoonayounis]

thank you for this, i googled her immediately then she was american! i was totally shocked really she was more parisian and the accent

[@220773]

Yep, she was from Dakota, way on westwards through the plains... ;-)

[@yoonayounis]

thanks for that info,i only knew here recently and really liked her r.i.p.

[@magnificent6668]

No, she's from Iowa. Marshalltown Iowa.

[@Sheppy99]

Amazing that more people aren't furious with the FBI for ending this amazing woman's life. Most beautiful girl to ever grace a screen.

[@niacha5]

elle est absolument charmante. ce qu'on ne peut pas dire de la journaliste...

[@larissaoliveira-lp8ok]

je pourrais l'ecouter toute la journée

[@karakia1444]

Her beauty looks more contemporary than 1960's

[@GH-oi2jf]

Kara Kia - She was avant-garde.

[@OrisLover]

Such a brave woman...she endured so much.

[@silat13]

The FBI drove this poor woman crazy and to suicide.

[@MrRockleyend]

What a beautiful woman she was. I'm in love with her.

[@muhammadmuflih5628]

Stfu you creepy

[@the9-2-5outlawdoestech9]

Too bad the crooked FBI ruined her life.

[@MissLizaMay]

I agree, stephenhenrywallace, she was stunning in Bonjour tristesse. She had much more talent than some people who are earning million dollar paychecks today.

[@coolershaker]

I really love that moment when she refers to Truffaut as a young radical film critic...yeah that haircut!!!

[@hankm]

Interesting bit there about Bonjour Tristesse being called "Preminger's love letter to Jean" - and her calling it, at first, "A LITTLE BIT exaggerated"... I've often wondered about that, as I have a copy of a 70s French magazine featuring a big photo of old Otto and teen Jean frolicking on the ground in their swimwear, in each other's arms, almost kissing each other... I've never seen the photo online, either. WHAT ON EARTH WAS GOING ON THERE? :-)

[@Vince-pm2ui]

She was not the casting couch types, and a lot has been written about her relationship with Preminger, there was nothing sexual in it, however Preminger was a true saddist on the set who crushed her talent by a big measure. She only managed to truely rise from it when she started to follow the actor course of Patton Price in LA in 58-59.

[@cannellout]

@CosmicArdency sorry but the interviewer is France Roche (born 1921 and fortunately still alive) who used to be a quite famous movie journalist in the sixties (she was married to François Chalais, another tv "star" of the time). France Roche worked successfully till 1986 for the french public television "Antenne 2" and ended her long career in cable and movie channels.In her youth she was casted for minor roles or appearances in several movies. Later she also wrote scripts.

[@PlayIt4MeAgainSam]

Le journaliste est très, très mal élevé! Mme. Seberg est enchanteur.

[@eotto2001]

Thanks for the post. Don't know why the critics went after her because the overall quality of the film just wasn't very good even if Priminger directed it. Just compare Anatomy of a Murder's photography to Saint Joan. The writing, the sets, and the overall acting was poor. She got whacked for all of Priminger's sins. The girl could act.

[@aidanvinciguerra8586]

Does anyone have the sourcing for this interview? I'm writing on Breathless and would like to add this interview as a source.

[@jexplink]

Jean Seberg is SOOOOOOOOOOO cool. Man I just LOVE her ;)

[@dorinvaden4520]

She seems. Like a wonderful person... Lord why do we. Let them destroy such things?

[@absolutelyems]

jean seberg is one of the most beautiful women i have yet to see. i would kill to look like her! i find the interviewer quite irritating. i understand she's doing her job but she doesn't have very much tact.

[@Desatormentado937]

Estoy total y perdidamente enamorado de ella.

[@coinsmr]

I really liked Jean Seberg in the "Moment to Moment." The music was stirring in the film also. I really miss Henry Mancini's talent.

[@mensah29]

for sure a star in the sky

[@KontraV]

Awesome! What year was this?

[@siempremarisol]

SHE WAS VERY BEAUTIFUL

[@TheThroney]

@HighFlyinDragon Sorry to bother you but may i ask what sort of sadness did she have?

[@BD-683]

Rip actress Jean You will be missed 😭

[@levcimac]

RIP Jean xxx

[@AlessandroCorsoni]

Patrizia! 'E' troppo tardi per avere paura'

[@dylanbonnar]

Brando met her later in .L.A and asked if the offer was still open, hehe. Don't blame him at all, I want to run away with her too.

[@JO-zq8ko]

amazing! wonderful woman ..

[@wasittoyou]

Jean n'etait pas seulement tres belle. Elle avait de la classe (ce qui n'est pas evident dans le monde pourri des journos) Ici on lui tend un piege durant l'interview, mais elle n'y tombe pas. Jean est inoubliable, tands que la "dadame" qui conduit l'interview est depuis et pour toujours dans les oubliettes.

[@PerAllwin1963]

To be able to learn and speak French at such a young age shows how intelligent Jean Seberg was.

[@7morphy]

Isn't wonderful, what Truffaut wrote about her? Better, about Otto Preminger's "love letter to her"? Lovely, when she says "a jeune critic tres radical, Francois Truffaut..." To me it's the best part of the interview.

[@EloiseDecember]

I think Europe was hard for her because it seems to me that she is an all American girl at heart (despite the fact that she could be French to look at and certainly her command of the language is amazing esp for someone who was loathe to remain away from America). I am glad I watched this interview because she is sweet and endearing and intelligent.

[@fbmj9089]

Haha the interviewer couldn't possible imagine that those movies would become bigger then life in the future and Seberg imortal.

[@MissLizaMay]

Agreed, Bonjour Tristesse was wonderful. And despite what this interviewer said, it was not a flop. It wasn't a huge hit, but it paled in comparison to Niven and Kerr's other film that year, Separate Tables.

[@electricrussellette]

People here are complaining about the interviewer, but you've got to remember at this time (1960) that it was still very much a man`s world, and in order for a woman, (such as the interviewer) to make it in a traditionally male profession, they would have to show that they could be just as formidable and aggressive as any man in an interview situation. A woman who was a bit more senstitve as an interviewer probably wouldn't have been employed at this time.

[@pedroantoniocuestadomenech3796]

estuvo tambien magnifica en la leyenda de la ciudad sin nombre junto a lee marvin

[@JeanEraBoreal]

La amo.

[@tobben20]

When is this interview? 1959'ish?

[@KontraV]

That's what I want to know!

[@christelle9122]

tellement indiscrète cette journaliste(?)

[@drparnassus2867]

Cette journaliste etait une garce enorme!

[@infrantasi]

L'entreviste parlait un français impeccable, dans un style plus qu'admirable. Jean parlait pas du tout mal. Mais pourquoi aujourd'hui est-ce-qu' on parle sino-français? C'est ni écoutable ni musicale.

[@VahanNisanian]

I only started hearing about her recently, and I'd like to know this: Was she always dubbed by another actress in English in her European films, or did she do her own dubbing? Also, how distinct is her actual voice?

[@nursegrace7492]

You can hear a lot of her natural speech pattern if you look for youtube video titled "JEAN SEBERG" that's 26:16 minutes long. I don't believe her speech was ever dubbed overseas. She spoke French with a distinctive American accent...but the French liked her so much, they found it charming. (They're not that forgiving of everyone!)

[@VahanNisanian]

Nurse Grace So to put it quite simply, in the French films she starred in such as "Breathless", she was heard speaking in French, with her American accent clearly visible in her French dialogue.

[@nursegrace7492]

Yes. I'm not sure her characters were supposed to be actually French in each case, though. They were sort of...sophisticated internationals.

[@kenw5104]

Beautiful and sensitive actress like her sure invites a lot of attention and affections from men particularly from show business, apart from the FBI. RIP Jean Seberg.

[@Vince-pm2ui]

Yep but she was not the casting couch type as others may have been.

[@hardsam68]

why did she die?

[@manintheboxxxX]

I'm in love with her...

[@erikcarmel5260]

...of a very classy lady...

[@Zincura]

I think it is interesting when they talk about psychoanalysis like it is a bad thing. Believe me most people could afford to open up to someone else about what is going on with them and engage in a little self exploration. Funny to see how many people have a negative stigma towards therapists. I didn't realize she commited suicide. Seems to me opening up to someone and dealing with her internal judgements, heartaches would of been a positive thing. Very sad.

[@SymonSaysTV]

Je suis à bout de souffle!

[@bartvermeulen6515]

Who was this interviewer?

[@siempremarisol]

BELLA

[@utop.i.a.delica2916]

💞

[@JackSmash32]

elle est magnifique, tout le contraire de celle qui l'interviewe

[@fredyibarra2492]

💔😢😔

[@princeofalbany]

It's sad that the FBI smeared her the way they did

[@simonpmccullagh6320]

they said her baby wasn't fathered by her husband through newsweek, she had an early birth and the baby died. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean_Seberg

[@blueberrycobbler]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/mYrNoZ2Ng8iEm8k A report on Jean Seberg from 1981.

[@trina2361]

The interviewer is really heartless and rude😒

[@StewBedazzle]

I'm in love with her.

[@robindro1961]

1:32 that cut to the journalist has cinematic tension

[@betty3tes]

Sa beauté évoque la lumière.

[@daveco1270]

What's up with this interviewer's questions? "So at that point everyone hated you and thought you were unattractive and a horrible actor. I'm sure you wanted to throw yourself into the ocean and drown. How did that feel?" Jean handled it all very well.

[@Juli-yf6jm]

La sociedad de ese tiempo no la merecía muy injusto todo lo que hicieron con ella

[@edwinreyes4653]

This interviewer is greatly presumptuous,she seems hasty to make assumptions and put words in her mouth,jumping to conclusions and travesties,its that mentality that the tabloids and FBI used to slander her image. Its a tragedy that she committed suicide,such a promising life ahead of her,such talent and beauty. You will continue to be missed,Jean Seberg.