When Zoey Deutch appears on Zoom, her hair is back to normal—a sleek dark brown wave that skims her bare shoulders. “I did not look cute for a very long time. I’m just now getting this back,” she says, running her fingers through the strands. That’s because last year, master stylists Bridget Brager, Tracey Cunningham, and Soumuy Nam chopped her chest-length hair into a chic pixie cut and dyed what was left platinum blonde so she could play Jean Seberg , the legendary French New Wave star, in Richard Linklater’s new film Nouvelle Vague . Despite the whole “not-cute” aspect of growing out the look, the physical transformation “was the easiest thing I could have done.”

But Deutch, 30, didn’t go for easy when preparing to play the star: She took French lessons to perfect Seberg’s partic

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