If you've played everything from a former concentration camp inmate embroiled in a sexual relationship with a guard to Keira Knightley's aristocratic mother in The Duchess, what next? For Charlotte Rampling, the answer is to record a song with French rapper Joey Starr, frontman of NTM (it stands for nique ta mère, which translates as an unpleasant word much beloved of rappers). The song's called Revivre and hits record shops soon.
For those who can't wait, here's a translated sample of the lyrics: "Time has not made my life arid/My nature hates emptiness/I am and will always be the light on your faces/I look back lightly on the forgotten years." I hope not to be accused of national stereotyping if I point out that it isn't entirely surprising that the bad boy of French rap deals in a more abstract subject matter than most of his anglophone counterparts.
