Eva Green in Camelot (2011)
Eva Green for Campari Calendar [2015]
“I’m like a cavewoman. I wish I could hang out in a big social place and be very open but I’m not like that. Being shy was a real problem in school. I don’t feel very comfortable. I have to force myself to go out. At events, it’s part of the job. I see it as a game. Otherwise, I’m very invisible. I prefer to float around.”
Vesper Lynd trying a Vesper Martini
“I often play confident and powerful women. People think that I’m like that in real life too. Labeling people is habitual but I’m a closed-off and shy person.”
Primordial. Every bit of civilization gone.
Everything true coming out.
♛ A L I E N O R - a television adaptation with Eva Green as Eleanor of Aquitaine; 10 episodes from 1137 to 1189 showing key events in the reign of Eleanor of Aquitaine, one of the most powerful women of the Middle Ages. Duchess of Aquitaine in her own right, she would go onto become queen-consort of France and later queen of England. [x]
Eleanor was a mature woman, mother, and grandmother. She exhibited great tenacity, political wisdom and amazing energy well into her 80s. With the well orchestrated marriages of her royal children and grandchildren occupying the thrones of England, France, and Germany, she could easily be called the “grandmother of Europe.” Moreover, through her efforts, unity and peace prevailed through much of Europe. From her beginnings, the Plantagenet reign lasted close to 300 years.
Eleanor was generous in support of religious orders, especially Fontevrault. She died in 1204 and was entombed in Fontevrault Abbey near her husband Henry and son Richard. Her tomb effigy shows her reading a Bible and is decorated with magnificent jewelry. Eleanor was said to be “beautiful and just, imposing and modest, humble and elegant,” and, as the nuns of Fontevrault Abbey wrote in their necrology, a queen “who surpassed almost all the queens of the world.”
Eva Green photographed by Jonas Bresnan for Vanity Fair Italia (December 2018)
“All sad people like poetry.”
– Mina, I can save you. – Why do you think I want to be saved?
we defy them
Beat, happy stars, timing with things below, Beat with my heart more blest than heart can tell, Blest, but for some dark undercurrent woe That seems to draw - but it shall not be so: Let all be well, be well.