Eva Green: ‘Ageing is difficult’

Actress Eva Green has admitted she struggles with her confidence as she gets older.
The 38-year-old former Bond girl has a starring role in the live-action remake of Disney’s Dumbo, playing trapeze artist Colette.
But while her career is going from strength to strength, she shared in an interview with ES Magazine that she feels insecure about reaching her 40s next year, and worries whether people will still like her.
“There is always that insecurity,” she told the publication. “You depend on the desire of people. I read interviews with women going (smug voice), ‘Oh, I’m soooo confident now I am in my 30s or in my 40s, I have found myself.’
“Well, actually, pfft, it is difficult for an actor, or for any woman, ageing. You think, my God, will people still like me? I’ll be in my 40s soon but I always feel like I am 15.”
In the movie, Eva displays her maternal side when Colette becomes close to Colin Farrell’s showman who, after losing his wife to influenza, is struggling to raise two young children who become Dumbo’s protectors.
However, when asked if she wants a family of her own, she is cautious.
“I don’t know. You need to find the right person,” she explained. “And I hate planning. In three months I might be on a job. Or I might be dead tomorrow.”
Dumbo is her third film with director Tim Burton, having previously starred in the vampire movie Dark Shadows and Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children.
“I pinch myself every time he asks me to work with him,” she smiled, quickly adding that there is no truth in rumours they’re a couple. “He is a lovely man and I love him, but no. NO!”