Audrey Tautou: ‘You want to know if I have fun when I have sex?’

Audrey Tautou is, by her own admission, a “complex kind of girl”. She is, for instance, the breakout actress who made a £450 million-grossing global smash (The Da Vinci Code) and then retreated from the very idea of a Hollywood career, to star instead in a succession of low-budget French dramas and comedies and to work on an epic, yet-to-be-published novel. She is the former face of L’Oréal and Chanel No 5 who nonetheless dismisses modelling work as “not my cup of tea”. She is the reluctant leading lady who fitfully flirts with the idea of retirement but is appearing in two high-profile comedies this summer, Mood Indigo and Chinese Puzzle. And she is the cutesy, elfin and doe-eyed star of the