Lou Doillon Does Jane Birkin
Spitting image: mother Jane on the left, daughter Lou on the right. (Or is it the other way round?)
It looks like Lou Doillon has been selected to play her own mother, Jane Birkin, in a new film about Serge Gainsbourg. Makes sense; they look a lot like each other. It’s a trick that has been performed before. If I remember well, Geraldine Chaplin once played her own grandmother in a film about her father Charley Chaplin.
For those not in the know: Serge Gainsbourg is not Lou Doillon’s father (that was director Jacques Doillon). She’s the half-sister of Charlotte Gainsbourg (who doesn’t look like her mother) and Kate Barry (whose father is composer John Barry, but doesn’t look like him). She’s also a “real” sister of Lola and Lily Doillon who don’t look like her at all, because their mother is not Jane Birkin. The part of Serge Gainsbourg will be played by Eric Elmosnino who looks like Charlotte’s (not Lou’s or Kate’s) father, but is not related to any of the above.
Wed 04-Jun-08 | Posted in: People
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