Kim Novak in 1997: "When the boss of Columbia hired me, he said, 'You're just a piece of meat in a butcher shop.'"
Interview by François Forestier
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Kim Novak at the Berlin Film Festival in February 1997. PEER GRIMM / DPA PICTURE-ALLIANCE VIA AFP
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Interview : In 1997, when the restored version of Vertigo was re-released, François Forestier met Kim Novak (now 92), whose image is deeply linked to her role in the film. An interview that takes us back to Hollywood in the 1950s and 1960s.
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It took two years of work to restore this legendary film to its original splendor. François Forestier took the opportunity to meet Kim Novak, its unforgettable heroine.
In English, the film is called "Vertigo." In French, it's "Vertigo." In both languages, it's admirable. James Stewart loses his mind, haunted by the memory of a woman, and descends into a criminal intrigue that Hitchcock knew only too well. Adapted from a novel by Boileau and Narcejac, the film was shot in 1958 with a rarely achieved attention to perfection. Thus, the famous bell tower of the Spanish mission of San Juan Bautista…
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