Despina Mirou on set and at Cannes

Stealing the show wherever she appears, Despina made a double, glamorous appearance this year, at the great celebration of the Cannes Film Festival 2024, she was the only Greek woman who excels abroad. In fact, in one film she directed by the huge Johnny Depp, and Al Pacino's teacher also plays too ! The internationally renowned actress stole the show on the red carpet, on the occasion of her participation in two foreign-language American films, with famous signatures, the only Greek woman, who has managed to do something like this, until today, a fact that also happened last year in the same festival receiving a performance award for her role as Sophia Loren! At the screening of the Hollywood film "Dreamers" by the Bolivian director Clinton Siegle, she won the applause of the packed theater for her performance. She plays the role of a blind girl with huge success, having already received nominations and awards from international festivals for the same role! Because of the huge change from the role when she appeared as a Greek goddess drew on her, all the flashes of the photographers, while she won the best reviews and comments for her performance. Q: How do you feel playing such a difficult role? It’s part of my life and my work both! I love the difficulties building a charather!This role is me. Thanks to my director Clinton Siegle! We are now going to made our 4th film. Thank you Bolivians! Q: What was the most memorable time you live this year in the festival? When the Cannes Film Festival's 77th opens with Meryl Streep receiving an honorary Palme D'Or!She is so humble, she said "I'm just so grateful that you haven't gotten sick of my face,"joked to the audience! Many of stars this year at the Cannes' and some red carpets! Franscis Ford Coppola was my gift!! He shosen my professor Al Pacino for the Dogfather, same time my teacher has an anniversary for 40 years Scarface film! Coppola's decades-in-the-making epic Megalopolis, an Ancient Rome-inspired saga set in a corrupt modern-day city, wasthe most anticipated of 22 entries for the top prize Palme d'Or. And of corse I was magnitude by Kevin ostner! That year was so amazing, recent Oscar-winner Emma Stone with our talented Yorgos Lanthimos for Kinds of Kindness, , I met again Demi Moore, and Uma Thurman!I become fun of Richard Gere mesmerized by his style , and his wonderful performance in Paul Schrader's Oh Canada. And of course my favorite Kevin Costner returns to the Western genre with Horizon, an American Saga”

The beauty icon appeared very impressively in the second film Modi, Johnny Depp's first directorial effort, playing alongside big names like Al Pacino. The film is biographical about Modigliani's life. She won again with her talent and her temperament, in a tough casting, among hundreds of actors! The Greek actress was present, alongside the famous director, as well as the rest of the film's actors, once again winning over the audience and journalists for her role. Another big "stone" in the great career, which has been going on for the last 8 years in America, after 75 awards and her huge success in whatever role she plays, because while her films are all dramatic, in the evenings she appears in the biggest comedy clubs! Big moments for her at this year's Cannes Film Festival, her meeting with the famous director Francis Ford Coppola, « who discovered Al Pacino's teacher, and as Pacino himself has said: it benefits Coppola's career. » But also the invitation, to the private party of Pacino's producer from the film MODI! Her meeting with George Lucas, Meryl Streep, Faye Dunaway where they filmed and acted together in a new American movie « American connection »but also with Kevin Costner where he organized especially for these two a private party herself, she also met Wim Wenders whom she met last year with Cronenberg, the handsome Nicolas Cage, Cate Blanchett who considers her a continuation of Meryl Streep, and she made an acting class with Blanchett!! He also received, rain of proposals, from internationally renowned directors and producers, for new films and already closed a new film from a director who spotted it at the festival for an American production!