Tautou: 'I wanted to study monkeys'

Audrey Tautou has revealed that when she was younger, she wanted to become a monkey expert rather than an actress.

The Coco Before Chanel star admitted that she only realised her true career path once she started socialising in her late teens.

Tautou told The Independent: "I didn't plan to become an actress. I had no clue fame would land on me. As a child, I wanted to study monkeys but I changed my mind with the onset of hormones."

The actress continued: "Suddenly I was a teenager and I found partying more interesting than nature and got into art and theatre and movies."

Coco Before Chanel is in cinemas from Friday.