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"   Left to right: Plummer, Laurent, Mills, McGregor. Photo: Focus Features.  Last night was the premiere of Beginners, Mike Mills` smart, playful, and affecting semi-autobiographical film\u2014featured in our June issue\u2014about a man (Ewan McGregor) baffled when his newly-widowed father (Christopher Plummer) reveals that he&amp;#039;s gay. When dad is soon after diagnosed with, and eventually succumbs to, cancer, his son is both rocked by grief and inspired by the last free, high-spirited years of his father&amp;#039;s life. On the red carpet, ELLE.com talked to star M\u00E9lanie Laurent (of Inglourious Basterds), who plays a French actress that beguiles McGregor&amp;#039;s character. She talked to us about grappling with the movie&amp;#039;s canine co-star, revealed her favorite (and most frustrating) romantic drama, and cracked wise about being Dior&amp;#039;s newest fragrance muse. ELLE: You&amp;#039;re the new face of Dior&amp;#039;s Hypnotic Poison perfume.ML: I know! I couldn&amp;#039;t believe it when they called me. ELLE: How did you find out?ML: We [Dior and I] seduced each other for months, and it was my agent who called me to say that we were going to sign the contract. I remember I said to myself\u2014gasp\u2014think about who the other faces of Dior fragrances were! Jude Law, Charlize Theron, Natalie Portman\u2014and I thought, `Oh my God, I&amp;#039;m going to be one of them.&amp;#039; ELLE: How will you get used to seeing your face everywhere?ML: Oh, I don&amp;#039;t know! I forgot that part! ELLE: Are you boning up on how to give beauty interviews now?ML: I did some interviews at Cannes, because we had made the announced then. So I spent two days giving beauty interviews. I got a lot of pleasure from this\u2014but the strangest question was, `Were you born beautiful, or did you become beautiful?&amp;#039; What an odd question! I wanted to say, `Well, I was born ugly, and now everything is fake.&amp;#039; [laughs] ELLE: Let&amp;#039;s talk about the movie. Beginners is, in so many ways, about love. What&amp;#039;s your favorite film about amour?ML: Bridges of Madison County. It&amp;#039;s so frustrating\u2014ugh\u2014when Meryl Streep doesn&amp;#039;t open the door and leaves Clint Eastwood out in the rain. I&amp;#039;ve watched the movie 20 times, and I cry again and again\u2014and every time, I know she&amp;#039;s not going to open that fucking door. ELLE: Ewan McGregor has a little dog in the film that communicates to him in subtitles. Can we talk about how adorable that dog is?ML: He was not that adorable, because he hated me! He was jealous of my relationship with Ewan. But you know what? I don&amp;#039;t care because I&amp;#039;m a cat person. ELLE: You are? Okay, be honest, how many cats do you have?ML: Just one. I&amp;#039;m not a crazy old cat lady! [laughs] I&amp;#039;m the face of Dior perfume now! "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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