Morgane is best known for her bolshy Princess Gisla in the History Channel's lavish Vikings drama series. Sunglasses, £240, Stella McCartneyĪs an actor. Wool-blend sweater, £810, Bottega Veneta. I love spending time with Marianne, she's such a force of nature, such a bloody warrior." Of course she still misses her parents - Zooming them over Christmas while she was home alone in London recovering from Covid was "a bit too upsetting. "I have a few families who sort of adopted me. Her "surrogate mum" in Britain is Marianne Faithfull. "I love the open-mindedness that I didn't find in Paris." It took her "about five years" to find her feet and make friends for life while she did her International Baccalaureate, a foundation drama course and then a BA degree at the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama she has now lived here for 11 years and - "whoop!'"- has indefinite leave to remain. If Paris had felt to her like a goldfish bowl where she was under constant scrutiny, London was like "the sea, huge and exciting," she says.
Morgane arrived in London alone at 17, around the time the longstanding case against her father flared up again (he was threatened with extradition to the US because he fled justice in 1978, having admitted having sex with a minor). I know my own journey and I did it myself."Ĭotton twill shirt, £970, matching trousers, £1,500, and leather clogs, £760, all Hermès "I worked hard for everything I have," she shrugs. By any normal standards, she has achieved rather a lot for 28.įirst, she has created her own life here in Britain, away from her thunderously talented parents, the legendary director Roman Polanski and his muse the actor, singer and immortal beauty Emmanuelle Seigner. This is a woman who is deeply knowledgeable and passionate about film (I am put in mind of a young Sofia Coppola, although it's David Lynch with whom she shares a birthday). Like Robbie, she aims not only to act, but to produce her own projects Polanski wants to co-write, produce, direct, act - the lot. Wrapped in a vintage military coat, and solidly grounded in DM boots, she has a light French accent, and her fingernails painted a harlequinade of different colours, like her heroine Margot Robbie in Birds of Prey. By 25 Orson Welles had already made Citizen Kane!" "I'm 28, what have I achieved?" Morgane Polanski shouts these words into the wind as we take a socially distanced walk around blustery Kensington Gardens, her daily lockdown stomping ground.
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