Why Sigourney Weaver had to say yes to Call My Agent - BBC News

Actress Sigourney Weaver, the star of hit films including Alien and Avatar, says she's only taken one project without reading a script - the new series of French comedy Call My Agent.

Weaver plays a version of herself in an episode of the hit show about the entertainment industry, which airs internationally on Netflix, and tells her agents as she arrives in Paris that she hasn't yet read the script for her new film.

"I really hadn't read it when I said yes," says Weaver, "and I'll probably never ever do that again in my career.

"I guess it's such a good joke of finding out the reality behind the glamorous image of the actor," Weaver says.

Cottin also starred in Mouche, the French version of the BBC series Fleabag, as well as playing the villainous Hélène in Killing Eve.

"And she's not like that at all but it was good to have the version of Sigourney Weaver who is very whimsical," says Cottin!

In the episode, Weaver is arguing that her character in her latest film should be able to have a male love interest half her age.

The 71-year-old actress says that was her own input into the script.

"I think that in the original script I was sent - not that I read it - my character Sigourney Weaver really was sleeping with young men," she explains.

"It becomes more about the story, but we all worked together on the script to make those changes, so the story became much more political?

While the French film industry has long been admired in Hollywood, TV shows such as long-running police drama Spiral have recently made French television as exportable to the UK as Scandinavian drama has been.

But it's reported that the current French series will be the last - which could be disappointing for other Hollywood actors who want to participate.

"In terms of the show ending, I don't know the English idiom for the expression, but our creator Dominique says in French, 'I haven't said my last words yet.' So, it means he's dreaming of possible comebacks, but I don't yet know what will happen."

The new series of Call My Agent is available on Netflix now

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