Labels:text | screenshot | font OCR: And she's enormously focused. She gives people rapt attention." A trick Jacob uses to help her get into character: perfume. "Before I play a character," she says, "I always choose a scent for her to wear. Then, whenever I put that fragrance on, I feel like I'm in the character's skin." The perfume she chose for her role as Desdemona was a scented mineral water by Paco Rabanne. "It made me feel her softness but also her strength," she said. Jacob currently lives in Paris. Michael St Aubyn Contact Information Irène Jacob c/o Nicole Cann, 1 rue Alfred de Vigny, 75008 Paris, France