[HIGHLIGHTS] “You're ugly, pass your turn”: Fanny Ardant reveals that at 20, she was not considered “beautiful enough” to play a James Bond girl

Fanny Ardant recalls a difficult episode with a casting director in her early days. The casting director, whom she really liked, rejected her at the time because she “wasn’t beautiful enough” Ardant: “I would have liked to kiss her” The actress is promoting her new play La Blessure et la soif by Laurence Plazenet.

She will be on RTL this Sunday April 14 to promote the play and to talk about her new film, The Secret Life of the James Bond Girl, which opens in cinemas on May 1. For more information, visit Fanny Ardante’s website and Twitter @FannyArdant. For the full interview, visit the RTL morning show on Sunday, April 14 at 8.30am and 9.00am. For confidential support call the Samaritans in the UK on 08457 90 90 90, visit a local Samaritans branch or see www.samaritans.org for details.