"I want to be a blonde vampire. Catherine Deneuve was a blonde vampire, and she was my favourite vampire ever"
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Invoking Catherine Deneuve tightens the reference into something distinctly film-literate. Deneuve’s vampire aura (cool, immaculate, remote) belongs to a European tradition where horror is elegant and erotic rather than messy and gore-forward. That’s a pointed contrast to the contemporary, often hyper-verbal, self-explaining vampire. Deneuve’s threat is quiet; it’s all restraint and surface. Mitchell’s fandom reads like an actor’s admiration for a performance style: minimal gesture, maximum projection, letting the audience do the sweating.
There’s also a sly career subtext. For actresses, especially in Hollywood’s churn, “vampire” can be a mask for agency: the ability to take, to outlast, to control appetite instead of being consumed by it. By naming a “favourite vampire ever,” Mitchell signals taste, lineage, and aspiration in one breath - not just wanting a role, but wanting to inhabit a cinematic archetype that makes sophistication feel lethal.
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Mitchell, Radha. (2026, January 15). I want to be a blonde vampire. Catherine Deneuve was a blonde vampire, and she was my favourite vampire ever. FixQuotes. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/i-want-to-be-a-blonde-vampire-catherine-deneuve-159115/
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Mitchell, Radha. "I want to be a blonde vampire. Catherine Deneuve was a blonde vampire, and she was my favourite vampire ever." FixQuotes. January 15, 2026. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/i-want-to-be-a-blonde-vampire-catherine-deneuve-159115/.
MLA Style (9th ed.)
"I want to be a blonde vampire. Catherine Deneuve was a blonde vampire, and she was my favourite vampire ever." FixQuotes, 15 Jan. 2026, https://fixquotes.com/quotes/i-want-to-be-a-blonde-vampire-catherine-deneuve-159115/. Accessed 15 Feb. 2026.


