LS: I just date people who earn a million dollars a month. [Laughs] Actually my boyfriend doesn't earn that much money. He's a stage actor, so he doesn't have a penny in his pocket, but he's the person I love.
PB: In general, though, what do you look for in a guy?
LS: I don't look for anything. I just get what I need.
PB: Have you ever had a crush on a celebrity?
LS: When I was a kid I had a crush on Stevie Wonder. I don't know why now, because he's not that handsome.
PB: Any movie stars you'd love to work with these days?
LS: I wouldn't say "no" to a love scene with Josh Hartnett. But I'd be more interested in meeting directors than actors. Directors are more important, because they own the story and they're the ones that make you improve or not.
PB: Without giving too much of the movie away, Julie doesn't take rejection very well in Swimming Pool. What's the worst thing you've ever done in a breakup?
LS: [Mischievous smile] I told my boyfriend that I slept with his best friend.
PB: But you hadn't?
LS: I had, yeah. You want something bad? That's the worst thing. I was young.... I was 12. [Laughs] No, you shouldn't trust me that much.
PB: Next you're Tinkerbell in a new live-action version of Peter Pan. How is this different from the cartoons or Spielberg's version?
LS: They all avoid the ambiguity of Peter and the Oedipus crisis. If Freud saw the Peter Pan cartoon, he'd be shouting in his grave, "Let me out!" Everybody hears about Peter Pan Syndrome, but in the versions you may have seen you never understand it. "I don't want to grow up." What does that mean regarding your parents, sexuality, adolescence and being an orphan? This new version is much more realistic, much more contemporary and much more honest.
PB: How does Tinkerbell play into all this?
LS: In France we have the legend of the Sandman who spreads the sand so the children scratch their eyes and then go to sleep. I think pixie dust is something like that, a powder that makes you escape all the reality that you don't want to have to deal with.
PB: America gave France a lot of grief for not supporting the Iraq war. What do you say to that?
LS: "Fries, please!" The French have been through two world wars during the last century, and everyone is really scarred by what happened. War is never a good idea. "Freedom. Equality. Fraternity." It's not an old-fashioned concept. It's still alive. Plus, the French army is very weak, so that's why they're not taking any risks.
PB: I see you don't just smoke in the movies. You smoke in real life. Is that a French affectation?
LS: I didn't know it was French when I started. I've always smoked American cigarettes. The American tobacco industry is very rich thanks to the French people. We die for you!
