Science & Tech Quote by Berenice Bejo

It is hard to miss the quiet violence in that verb: “told.” Bejo isn’t describing curiosity; she’s describing instruction, the way an actress is trained to treat her own body like a product demo. The hours “on the internet” matter because they signal a modern kind of apprenticeship: not drama school, but the algorithmic museum of poses, winks, and waist-grabs that circulates as “glamour.” In this world, performance isn’t only what you do with a character, it’s what you do with your silhouette.

The specificity of the gestures is the point. A wink, a hand on a waist, a walk into a room: tiny, repeatable units of femininity that read instantly on camera and in publicity photos. Bejo’s phrasing - “how her body takes place of everything” - is clumsy in a revealing way, as if language itself buckles under the absurdity of the demand. The body doesn’t just accompany the performance; it “takes place,” displacing voice, craft, interiority. It becomes the headline.

Culturally, the quote lands in the post-streaming, post-social era where actresses are expected to be both talent and perpetual image managers, fluent in the micro-choreography of desirability. The subtext isn’t anti-glamour so much as exhaustion with the narrowness of what glamour is allowed to be: a set of borrowed moves that promise power while quietly enforcing sameness. Bejo is showing how aspiration can become surveillance, and how “learning” to be seen can crowd out the freedom to act.