It's always interesting to meet someone you've seen on the screen so many times. You always wonder: Are they like their movie image? I know, I know — actors are just playing a role, that's not really them up on the screen.
Except sometimes it is. Some people gravitate toward certain roles because of who they are. Sean Penn is very intense in person. Emmanuelle Beart does exude sensuality. Drew Barrymore is winningly flaky. Tom Cruise does seem earnest and genuine, but in a carefully contrived way.
So I was wondering, before meeting Julie Delpy, an actress I've admired for years, would I get the on-screen Julie? Was she at all like the smart, sensitive but sharp-tongued Celine of "Before Sunrise" and "Before Sunset"? Was she as romantically confused and casually wise as her character Marion in her new film, "2 Days In Paris"?