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"   Guinness as Marguerite Duras. Photo: Joseph Lally  PARIS\u2014 As if being a muse to Lady Gaga, working on charity projects and preparing her own couture retrospective at FIT wasn&amp;#039;t enough, Daphne Guinness is also finding time to focus on one of her newest passions: cinema. Yesterday, at the Ritz, the heiress filled us in on her interest in acting as well as producing films, starting with with her participation in pal Diane Pernet&amp;#039;s annual film festival ASVOFF. The festival will be held in early October in Paris&amp;#039; Centre Pompidou and Guinness isn&amp;#039;t just a member of the jury, she&amp;#039;s also acting in three of the participating films\u2014as Jean Seberg, and then as French writer Marguerite Duras\u2014one of which she&amp;#039;s producing. &amp;quot;I never wanted to act, I always thought the world didn&amp;#039;t need another actress,&amp;quot; she told us. &amp;quot;I just say the lines as authentically as possible. I mean, if I tried to act anything it would just be awful!&amp;quot; But cinema, she explained, especially classics and films from the early 70s, is something she&amp;#039;s always been curious about, &amp;quot;I long for this beauty, where every line and every costume played its own role.&amp;quot;   Guinness as Jean Seberg. Photo: Joseph Lally  So it&amp;#039;s not shocking that the fashion icon&amp;#039;s currently setting up her own production company. The first project? Turning a short, science fiction film into a feature-length movie that&amp;#039;s midway between Invasion of the Body Snatchers and David Cronenberg&amp;#039;s work. &amp;quot;I&amp;#039;ve always been fascinated by science, and the idea of bringing science and art together,&amp;quot; she said. "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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