Hey everyone. Capone in Chicago here.

I got to talk to Julie Delpy, and if you know who she is, then you probably have a crush on her or did at some point in the last 15 years. If you haven’t ever had a crush on her, I have nothing to say to you. And her work with Richard Linklater on BEFORE SUNRISE and BEFORE SUNSET set off a flurry of young American men bound for Europe looking, well, for her, or a version of her.

Her new film, 2 DAYS IN PARIS, is a twisted and funny version of her persona from those two films, and she does everything in her power to shatter what we think she’s all about. She wrote, directed, produced, stars, and even did much of the music in this film, and the results are hilarious.

Here’s Julie Delpy…

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Julie Delpy is cold. When turning down the air conditioning in a San Francisco hotel suite doesn’t yield immediate relief, she grabs a furry throw blanket off the couch and secures it snuggly over her lap.

The blanket, which she assures me isn’t real fur, will prove to be her only cover-up. Speaking in practically unaccented English, the 37-year-old French actress is disarmingly forthright when describing her struggle to get to direct a feature film - her first, “2 Days in Paris,” opens Friday - and to uphold a moral principle to not sleep her way to the top.

Delpy’s natural beauty has been both an asset and a liability. Her porcelain complexion and fine blond hair are set off this morning by a loden green dress, definitely her color. She has the kind of open face and perfect features that the camera loves, as fans of “Before Sunrise” and “Before Sunset” - the bittersweet romances she’s best known for in America - can attest. Jean-Luc Godard discovered Delpy when she was 14 and cast her in “Detective,” but her movie career in her native country was stymied by a traumatic experience five years later.
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Thanks to Diana at marieclaire.com for letting us know about their interview with Julie in the latest issue of Marie Claire. Click here or below to read the interview.

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Julie Delpy, 37, has worked steadily in film since she was a teenager in Paris, beginning with her first role in “Detective” for French New Wave pioneer Jean-Luc Godard. American audiences know Delpy best for her work opposite Ethan Hawke in “Before Sunrise” and the Oscar-nominated follow-up, “Before Sunset.”

Today, Delpy is using everything she has learned from working in front of the camera to test her skills behind it.

The fresh and funny romantic comedy “2 Days In Paris” is not just Delpy’s directorial debut, she is also the film’s writer, producer, editor and composer, and she stars as a Frenchwoman on vacation with her neurotic American boyfriend. He is played by the hilarious Adam Goldberg, a former off-screen flame of Delpy’s. On the way back from Italy to New York, the couple stops off for “2 Days In Paris” to visit her family, and their relationship unravels. Delpy’s real-life mother and father (both of whom are professional film and stage actors) co-star as her parents in the movie.

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“I don’t audition much, because people don’t really call me for anything,” says actor Julie Delpy with a laugh. The statement is hard to believe. Sharp intelligence and edgy humor permeate Delpy’s performances, the most impressive of which are in roles she has written for herself. Her screenwriting landed her an Academy Award nomination, for co-writing (with her co-star Ethan Hawke and director Richard Linklater) 2004’s Before Sunset, the follow-up to 1995’s Before Sunrise. The sequel also featured songs from her self-written and self-produced album.

As an actor she has worked with some of the past century’s legendary directors: Jean-Luc Godard, Krzysztof Kieslowski, Agnieszka Holland. Yet, Delpy insists, “My agent hasn’t found me a job for a long time. But I don’t really care so much, because I’m already shooting my next film as a director.”

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