i spoke with molly ringwald, who translated the book into english. asked what drew them to the project. i would like to start with you. you wrote in the book that as a small girl, you collected articles and photos of your cousin in a red folder. why did you do that? why was she important to you? what did she represent to you growing up? >> when i was a child, i was fascinated by maria schneider, who was very famous in france and the world at the time. not necessarily for good reasons, but for the scandalous film last tango in paris. she was my cousin, but also a bit of a star. i admired her a lot, and at the same time felt she was fragile and had a need to protect her. >> why did you decide to write the book? to tell her story? >> maria was older than me. i'm a journalist, but i had already written novels. she told me one day she would like to tell her version of things since she already said interviews she had been abused because of that scene. the scene of sodomy that had not been written in the script. she wanted to say what kindf woman she was, w