EIGHTIES film star Beatrice Dalle hasn't aged a day after she shot to fame as the lead star in Betty Blue. The French actress, now 59, caused controversy when she admitted she she once ate a dead man's ear while high on drugs. Beatrice said she cut the ear off a corpse and ate it after she and her friends had taken LSD.
She told The Local that she she used to work in a morgue with friends and one time they “made ourselves a meal”. Fast forward nearly 40 years after her 1986 movie and the star still keeps her fans updated on her life away from the camera. She previously Hot Press about landing her first role: It happened by chance; I did the cover of Photo magazine.
.. the film was being cast at the time and I fitted the character’s physical description.
READ MORE ON 80S FILMS "I was exactly what they were looking for. So, they made me do the auditions. All the actresses in France were interested.
"But I saw in [director, Jean-Jacques] Beineix’s eyes that it was me: he had found me. "And there’s an incredible story: after the film was released, they published the book with my picture on it. But before that, there was obviously no picture of me on the book.
" She has posted a string of selfies of her looking youthful and shared her love for late rocker Kurt Cobain. Most read in News TV The star appears to be an expert on the musician who was the lead vocalist, guitarist and a founding member of the grunge band Nirvana. Beatrice also prides herself on the art she has made of him.
She has remained in the public eye and appeared on a number of French films, become an integrational sex symbol. But it's her antics away from the screen that has made her more famous. She was arrested in 1991 for shoplifting but was handed a six-month suspended sentence, she was later convicted for possessing heroin and cocaine in 1995.
In 2011, she told the Independent she was banned from the US for seven years after hitting a consul in the late 1990s. And in 2005 she struck up a new romance with Huanael Meziani, who was an inmate in a Brittany prison. In 2011, she confirmed to the publication that they were still a couple.
Despite her controversies, her work touched many people over the years - with roles in French films like 1989 movie Chimère. READ MORE SUN STORIES She starred in Jim Jarmusch's Night on Earth in 1991. And six years later, she landed the role in The Blackout, her first film made in the United States.
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