Eva Green as “Crazy Mary Poppins”.

Miss Peregrine: Eva Green reunites with Tim Burton

In 2016, four years after touring for the first time under his direction A black shadowEva Green collaborates again with Tim Burton for the film Miss Peregrine and the Peculiar Children. If in A black shadow She played a supporting role, the French actress this time playing the title role of the film, which was adapted from the eponymous novel by Ransom Riggs, published in 2011.

The plot takes place in a fantastical world where we find an orphanage run by Miss Peregrine (Eva Green), a woman with extraordinary abilities, who has the ability to transform into the world’s fastest bird, a falcon. She protects children with unique powers, Living in a time loop isolated from external threats.

After the death of his grandfather, young Jacob (Asa Butterfield) finds himself drowning This mysterious universe After discovering the orphanage and its beloved residents.

A “Crazy Mary Poppins”

A huge admirer of Tim Burton’s work since her teenage years, Eva Green describes their first meeting as “magical” when the director wanted to offer her the role of Angelique Bouchard’s witch. A black shadow

. So the actress did not think twice before accepting a new collaboration with the director. To introduce her to the character, the latter simply told her that she was “Scary Poppins” (a scary Mary Poppins), a nickname that evolved into “Crazy Mary Poppins” after Eva Green.

For filming purposes, the actress faced a major challenge: working on her English accent so that she could speak very quickly, To evoke the speed of the peregrine falconBut it is also their challenge to constantly fight against time to protect its private inhabitants, which could fall into the wrong hands.

In 2019, Eva Green and Tim Burton collaborated for the third time Dumbo, a live-action adaptation of the classic Disney cartoon. In the film, the actress played the role of a French trapeze artist, who takes a small elephant with big ears under her wing.