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05-07-2015, 09:06 PM
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/film/Camille-Cottin-Prince-Harry-arrested/
Camille Cottin clambered up the gate of Kensington Palace in a sketch for her film Connasse: Princesse des coeurs
A French actress climbed the gates of Kensington Palace in high heels, interrupted the changing of the guard and spent two nights in a British jail as she secretly filmed a comedy about a Parisian desperate to marry Britain's Prince Harry.
The film Connasse: Princesse des coeurs (The Parisian B----) is filmed entirely by hidden camera, but has caused a stir in France, where more than half a million people have rushed to join queues outside cinemas during its first week of release, film distributor Gaumont says.
Camille Cottin plays Camilla, the insufferable woman who is determined to marry Prince Harry, as he is "the last bachelor prince who is not deformed (even if he is a redhead) and who is the right age."
Camilla, aka Connasse, has just turned 30 and has had enough of using public transport, paying taxes or facing the general daily grind most of us undertake every day. Connasse must deal with the eccentricities of British life, including idle chatter about the weather and cars driving on the other side of the road.
But in order to make the film, Cottin had to get undercover footage in some of London's most esteemed postcodes: including climbing the gate of Kensington Palace.
She expected this to be the hardest part, but it proved much easier than she thought.
"I was afraid of being arrested before even putting a toe on the gate and it would go belly up because visually that isn't very funny," she told cinema website Allocine.
"But I stayed there for 10 minutes yelling 'Harry, Harry' - the police didn't hear anything."
When they did arrive, demanding she get down, she asks them: "Can you open the door? I need to fetch Harry."
And, as she and the directors had hoped, she was eventually dragged off to the police station.
The actress spent a second night in prison after striding into the middle of the changing of the guard ceremony at Buckingham Palace after her character attempted to win a position within the royal household as a choreographer.
"Who is the choreographer who told you to do this crap," she yells while striding between the horses, in what her directors described as one of the most difficult scenes to set up.
Fearful of being stopped from filming any more scenes, she told the police she was acting out a dare for a Hen Party.
"But I am now banned from the Horse Guards in London," she told news website Metronews.
Her character hires a real etiquette coach - who she tests to the limits by demanding a straw to drink her tea - and even steals a panicked dogwalker's corgi in an effort to win over her future mother-in-law.
Cottin is well-known in her home country for her "Bitch" mini-series starring the same obnoxious character doing hidden camera sketches around Paris.
Her film, the first of its kind in France, has received mixed reviews with some raving about a "breath of fresh air" in French cinema while others say her bid to transfer her sketch format to the big screen falls flat.
The movie is currently out in Switzerland and Belgium where it has received "very good results" and it will be presented to foreign buyers at the Cannes film festival next week, Cecile Gaget, head of Gaumont, told AFP.
Cottin said she was obliged to show the movie to British lawyers who "loved it".
As for whether Prince Harry is aware of his starring role, it remains unclear.
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Camille Cottin clambered up the gate of Kensington Palace in a sketch for her film Connasse: Princesse des coeurs
A French actress climbed the gates of Kensington Palace in high heels, interrupted the changing of the guard and spent two nights in a British jail as she secretly filmed a comedy about a Parisian desperate to marry Britain's Prince Harry.
The film Connasse: Princesse des coeurs (The Parisian B----) is filmed entirely by hidden camera, but has caused a stir in France, where more than half a million people have rushed to join queues outside cinemas during its first week of release, film distributor Gaumont says.
Camille Cottin plays Camilla, the insufferable woman who is determined to marry Prince Harry, as he is "the last bachelor prince who is not deformed (even if he is a redhead) and who is the right age."
Camilla, aka Connasse, has just turned 30 and has had enough of using public transport, paying taxes or facing the general daily grind most of us undertake every day. Connasse must deal with the eccentricities of British life, including idle chatter about the weather and cars driving on the other side of the road.
But in order to make the film, Cottin had to get undercover footage in some of London's most esteemed postcodes: including climbing the gate of Kensington Palace.
She expected this to be the hardest part, but it proved much easier than she thought.
"I was afraid of being arrested before even putting a toe on the gate and it would go belly up because visually that isn't very funny," she told cinema website Allocine.
"But I stayed there for 10 minutes yelling 'Harry, Harry' - the police didn't hear anything."
When they did arrive, demanding she get down, she asks them: "Can you open the door? I need to fetch Harry."
And, as she and the directors had hoped, she was eventually dragged off to the police station.
The actress spent a second night in prison after striding into the middle of the changing of the guard ceremony at Buckingham Palace after her character attempted to win a position within the royal household as a choreographer.
"Who is the choreographer who told you to do this crap," she yells while striding between the horses, in what her directors described as one of the most difficult scenes to set up.
Fearful of being stopped from filming any more scenes, she told the police she was acting out a dare for a Hen Party.
"But I am now banned from the Horse Guards in London," she told news website Metronews.
Her character hires a real etiquette coach - who she tests to the limits by demanding a straw to drink her tea - and even steals a panicked dogwalker's corgi in an effort to win over her future mother-in-law.
Cottin is well-known in her home country for her "Bitch" mini-series starring the same obnoxious character doing hidden camera sketches around Paris.
Her film, the first of its kind in France, has received mixed reviews with some raving about a "breath of fresh air" in French cinema while others say her bid to transfer her sketch format to the big screen falls flat.
The movie is currently out in Switzerland and Belgium where it has received "very good results" and it will be presented to foreign buyers at the Cannes film festival next week, Cecile Gaget, head of Gaumont, told AFP.
Cottin said she was obliged to show the movie to British lawyers who "loved it".
As for whether Prince Harry is aware of his starring role, it remains unclear.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/content/dam/film/HarryLarge-xlarge.jpg
http://youtu.be/Uic-cltAjQI