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Catherine Breillat Speaking:

"My first screen test with Fu'ad was a disaster, but the second was very good, but also funny, because he was convinced he was the only person for the part; that I couldn't choose anyone else.

I told him that he was perhaps too young for the role and that I would have to think it over; that what I was looking for wasn't a realistic depiction but rather an iconic performance.

Fu'ad was absolutely furious and told me that he was the only person who could play the part and the proof of that was the fact that his birthday was the same as the author Barbey d'Aurevilly, so he had to do this part. He left absolutely furious.

Immediately after he left, I told my assistant to run after him, to call him, because I was convinced he was so angry that - out of despair - he would cut off his hair and I wanted him with the hair that he had. I told him that he was the dream of my life, that I had spent my whole life looking for an actor like him."