starlet

It captures the swagger, charisma and impulsiveness with which Godard convinced financial backers and Hollywood starlet Jean Seberg to make a debut feature that had neither a script nor a workable filming schedule.

The headstrong American starlet, cast as Belmondo’s noncommittal lover, is convinced that Godard is working toward a disaster and gets most of her enjoyment from teasing her prickly boss.

“The first thing I saw was Britney and her young starlet friend snorting a fat line of coke off the table,” he said in his book.

“Sydney Sweeney’s the new toast of the town out there because she’s got these enormous breasts that everybody’s obsessed with,” Kelly said about the starlet’s rise to stardom.

Is she a fallen starlet or a woman reinventing herself?