Shosanna Dreyfus

Played By: Melanie Laurent

Nationality of actor: French

Nationality of character: French

Laurent on Dreyfus: “I can imagine every actress in the world at the moment wants to play a beautiful, glamorous woman who's very cold, very strong and just wants to kill everybody. I think actresses want that at the moment.

“First reaction to the script was just, 'Wow!'. I was in preparation for doing a porn movie, as a director. So I was in a little shop choosing a bra and he just called me at that moment. I was like, 'Hello! Oh my god!'.

"So I left and was in the middle of the street and Quentin said, 'Do you want to be my Shosanna?' I was just screaming and crying, it was crazy!”

QT says: "One of the things that was really sweet with Melanie was we’d spent a few different days doing this montage, so I’m always playing the music for the montage, and she’s doing things even though I didn’t 100% know the cue marks.

“I was always kind of playing it and we would get the rhythm as the piece went on, and so finally when we finished the sequence and we knew we were walking away from the set with the big window for the last time, when we finally finished it, we played the music and me and Melanie just rocked out. 

“It was like the end of the day and we just danced out to the song and just got it all out of our system after living with it for so long. 

“Then, when we were on the red carpet at the Cannes premiere, we had a lot of people on that red carpet waiting for everyone to show up and everything, and the whole bank of photographers was there and the red carpet was there, and I go, ‘Let’s go dance!’. So we just started rocking out, acting the fool, relieving all the tension."

Next: Sgt. Donny Donowitz