It was Alain Sarde who brought a twenty-year-old Dutch girl, Maruschka Detmers, to the attention of Jean-Luc Godard, just out of an acting class and without any film experience behind her. Godard accepts, persuaded both by the perfectly fitting physical type to give life to a sensual and melancholy Carmen, and by the ease with which she faces, during an audition, a nude scene in the presence of the male protagonist. (IMDb)
It was Alain Sarde who brought a twenty-year-old Dutch girl, Maruschka Detmers, to the attention of Jean-Luc Godard, just out of an acting class and without any film experience behind her. Godard accepts, persuaded both by the perfectly fitting physical type to give life to a sensual and melancholy Carmen, and by the ease with which she faces, during an audition, a nude scene in the presence of the male protagonist. (IMDb)