It’s become a rite of passage for the French film star: you have achieved arthouse immortality, won an armful of Césars and been pontificated about by critics in black polo-necks — all that’s left is to play a fictionalised version of yourself in Call My Agent!
The fêted TV series about a talent agency and its clients — known in its native land as Dix Pour Cent — has given us Juliette Binoche as a dishevelled drunkard, Christophe Lambert as an ageing perv and Isabelle Huppert as a swivel-eyed workaholic with “the stamina of a Nepalese Sherpa”. It has attracted non-French stars too: Monica Bellucci stretched credibility splendidly as a desperate singleton, and in the fourth series Sigourney Weaver becomes the first American to get
