In more than fifty years of public life, Chantal Goya has covered a lot of paper.
“I have a fan who kept everything.
He also archived all my passages on television – 7000 hours, it seems”,
she laughs.
In fact, the lady is an integral part of French life.
While she has just celebrated her 80th birthday, she has never experienced an eclipse.
"However, I never had a career plan or was ambitious
," she says.
I have always believed in encounters and unlikely opportunities.
Her appearance in Godard's 1966 film
Masculine Feminine
would have gone to any young woman's head.
But Chantal Goya is not one of them.
“I can't stand being commanded or directed.
That, Godard understood very well.
With him, we arrived like that, and if we were expressive and natural, it was fine.
He liked me, Jean-Luc, but he wanted me to shoot naked.
I told him that I did not want to and that it was not my education.
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