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Guillaume Laurant was born on 22 November 1961 in Saint-Quentin, Aisne, France. He is a writer and actor, known for Amélie (2001), I Lost My Body (2019) and A Very Long Engagement (2004). He was previously married to Sandrine Bonnaire.
- Writer, Actor
- November 22, 1961
- Guillaume Laurant
- How Did The Project Come About?
- And What Appealed to You, as The Director
- Guillaume, Where Did The Idea For The Novel Come from?
- Do You Have A Favourite Scene in The Film?
- Is The Ending of The Film The Same as in The Book?
- So It Is A Romance – It’S Just A Different Kind of Romance
- Were You Involved in The Process of Casting The Us Voice Actors?
- How Did You Find The Differences Between Directing The Us and French Cast?
- Are You Looking to Do Something Else with Netflix in The Future?
Marc Du Pontavic: Well, I got to meet Guillaume, in 2011, who wrote the novel. He was very well known as a screenwriter, but I didn’t know he was writing a novel. Guillaume Laurent: And he had the curiosity to read my novel. Marc Du Pontavic: That’s right. So I read that book, which was called Happy Hand, and I was hooked by the concept that it was...
Jérémy Clapin: Just to give my version of the story, I received an email from Marc in 2011, asking if we could meet, and I didn’t know for what. I knew Marc Du Pontavice because he’s very well known in the animation genre – he’s made a lot of cartoons, like Oggy and the Cockroaches. And so I did some research and I found that he also had a live-act...
Guillaume Laurant: When I was a child, I was quite a dreamer and one time, when I saw a glove on the pavement, I started imagining being very sad and saying ‘oh, it’s a hand and she died when she crossed the street’. And I imagined families of hands crying and I also thought that the empty glove was like a serpent sloughing off its skin. I think th...
Guillaume Laurant: For me, a wonderful scene is when Naoufel is talking on the intercom, when he’s coming with the pizza and it’s raining. And that’s not in the novel. Jérémy Clapin: For me, I love all my scenes, but I also hate all my scenes, because it was so much work! But yes, the intercom sequence was really nice to do. But maybe, in terms of ...
Guillaume Laurant: Good question. I don’t remember, exactly. The end of the film is more open. What happens, exactly, is it realism or a metaphor? We don’t know. I think in the book, the two characters meet and the love story finishes there.
Jérémy Clapin: Yeah, this is a love story between the hand and the body also. And it was also because at first we thought of a voiceover and I wanted the voice to be different from Naoufel’s. So it was obvious to make it a female voice.
Marc Du Pontavice: Very much so. Jérémy’s actually just come back from Los Angeles, where he’s been supervising and directing the English actors. We’ve got Dev Patel, Alia Shawkat and George Wendt as well, so a great cast, amazing actors, great voices. We were kind of sceptical, beforehand, because there’s so much attached to the French version and...
Jérémy Clapin: Actually, the process was not the same, because in France, we decided to shoot the footage, so the actors were playing their role in the studio and we recorded them at the same time. So it wasn’t just their voices, it was also their positions. And with Netflix, in America, it was only directing the voices. So of course, it was easier...
Marc Du Pontavice: Well, we’re definitely having conversations about new stuff. I’m in a company that’s already working a lot with Netflix on different series and things like this, in animation. But in that kind of adult genre, yeah, now that we’ve done that, they’re very encouraged to see what we’re going to do next and potentially what we can do ...
Dec 23, 2019 · An Oscar-nominated screenwriter known for such films as The City of Lost Children and Amélie, Guillaume Laurant found an exciting introduction to the world of animation in Jérémy Clapin’s I ...
- Matt Grobar
Feb 19, 2024 · Based on an original story by Jeunet and Guillaume Laurant, Amélie follows an introverted waitress with an overactive imagination (played by Audrey Tautou) who makes it her mission to help those around her find happiness. Along the way, she inadvertently opens herself up to both friendship and, perhaps most surprising of all, true love.
Feb 11, 2022 · As written by Jeunet and Guillaume Laurant, “Bigbug,” filmed on a single stage set, delivers artificial-intelligence comedy with a doomy vibe.
Guillaume Laurant was born on November 22, 1961 in Saint-Quentin, Aisne, France. He is a writer and actor, known for Amélie (2001), I Lost My Body (2019) and A Very Long Engagement (2004). He was previously married to Sandrine Bonnaire.
- November 22, 1961
Guillaume Laurant is known as an Screenplay, Writer, Actor, Adaptation, Dialogue, Additional Dialogue, and Novel. Some of his work includes Amélie, I Lost My Body, A Very Long Engagement, The Young and Prodigious T.S. Spivet, Micmacs, Bigbug, Locked Out, and Raoul Taburin.
