the juice: audrey tautou + playing coco chanel in movie?

Audrey Tautou will star as Coco Chanel in a $15 million biopic about the legendary French fashion designer. Tautou made a name for herself in the highly regarded 2001 film Amelie. The film, which will focus on Chanel’s childhood and early womanhood, was specially conceived with Tautou in mind. The woman who practically invented French chic was born into poverty as Gabrielle Chanel, the illegitimate daughter of a traveling salesman, in 1883. After the death of her moth and abandonment by her father, she spent seven years in a Catholic orphanage, where she learned to sew. But fashion wasn’t her first career choice. As a young woman, Chanel had ambitions to be a singer and it was while warbling “Who’s Seen Coco in the Trocadero” in a cabaret that she acquired the nickname Coco. While working as a cabaret singer, she also took to sewing the stage clothes for the likes of French cabaret star Minstinguette before being taken under the wing wealthy Balsan. His chateau became Chanel’s home and her gateway to a new life. Wow, what an incredible story. And isn’t it creepy how similar Audrey actually looks like Coco? I can’t wait to see this movie!

Source: Fashion Mag Daily