When it comes to legendary movie stars, few can compare to Jacqueline Bisset, whose six-decade career includes films in both French and English, working with actors from Jean-Paul Belmondo, Steve McQueen, Paul Newman and Frank Sinatra to directors including François Truffaut, George Cukor, and John Huston. The 78-year-old actress works constantly, with three films in 2021, and she recently sat down with HFPA member Elisabeth Sereda for our Golden Globes Around the World podcast series to talk about her new film, Loren and Rose. 

The actress whose credits include Bullitt (1968), Under the Volcano (1984), Murder on the Orient Express (1974), Casino Royale (1967), and Who Is Killing the Great Chefs of Europe? was nominated for her first Golden Globe, as Most Promising Newcomer, in 1968 and won a Best Supporting Actress Golden Globe in 2014 in the limited series, Dancing on the Edge. “I thought Sofia Vergara was going to win that night for Modern Family,” Bisset confessed bluntly to Sereda as she talked about her memorable acceptance speech. “I had no idea I’d be going up on stage that night!”

The down-to-earth star tells it all, including her accidental nude scene in Secrets (1971), a wet T-shirt poster for The Deep (1977) that she’s still angry about, and a meeting with Marlon Brando – whose poster was on her wall as a teenager – that could have started a romance if she wasn’t already on a date the night they met.