2024-02-21 08:57:49
Laura Martin Contini, mistress and coach of Messi, the canine star of the Palme d’Or, fears seeing the animal confined to roles similar to the one he played in Justine Triet’s film.
Having become a world star thanks to his role in Anatomy of a Fall, and a now famous scene where he mimes his death, the dog Messi (Snoop in the film) has been causing a sensation in Hollywood for several weeks.
The canine star has also been offered new roles in the cinema. But Laura Martin Contini, Messi’s mistress and coach, fears seeing the animal confined to roles similar to the one he played in Justine Triet’s film, she told Variety.
“I’m a little afraid that he will now be confined to roles where he is asked to die,” she declared in the columns of the specialized magazine. “These are the kinds of roles we’re being asked to do from now on.”
In a key scene from Anatomy of a Fall, Messi plays dead even though his character has just taken aspirin. A sequence which left its mark on spectators and earned the animal a prize, the Palme dog, at the 2023 Cannes Film Festival.
Star of the Oscar luncheon
This Border Collie, who attended the traditional Oscar nominees’ luncheon last week, was the darling of the stars who all wanted to be photographed alongside him, from Ryan Gosling to Billie Eilish.
Anatomy of a Fall, which dissects the balance of power and domination within a couple of artists, attracted more than 3 million admissions worldwide and won two Golden Globes as well as a Bafta, the British Oscars.
Nominated 11 times for the César, Justine Triet’s film also received five Oscar nominations, becoming the French film with the most Oscar nominations since Amour by Michael Haneke and The Artist by Michel Hazanavicius.
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