Norah Jones Gets Many Kisses

Sat down for a bubble water with singer Norah Jones. She's just as ripe and fresh and petite and round as a cherry tomato, with these eyebrows, like mysterious black lines on a map to a place you want to go. She stars in "My Blueberry Nights," the Wong Kar Wai film that opened Cannes, and she says, "I guess my biggest challenge was I never acted before." And she was scared. "My nerves were a big problem," she says, and cradles her head on her hand, and sighs. She says she never imagined herself as an actress but when Wong Kar Wai sought her out, "and I needed a break from music, I jumped in."

Norah Jones in "My Blueberry Nights." (The Weinstein Company)

One of the other reporters asks her, is it true that to film one scene she kissed Jude Law 150 times, and the reporter who asks is pretty excited about this. Corrects Miss Jones, "He kissed me." And the 150 is an exaggeration. "I think it was 95," she says. When she saw the finished film, for the first time, at the gala premiere, what did she think? "I was amazed," she says, "how large my face was."

By Bill Booth |  May 18, 2007; 10:56 AM ET  | Category:  Cannes Film Festival 2007
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