NEW YORK - After Julie Delpy carefully slides the hem of her black dress just over the knee, her co-star Chris Rock playfully slides it back an inch.
The two obviously share an ease with one another after having played a couple in Delpy's new film, "2 Days in New York." It's a sequel to her acclaimed 2007 film, "2 Days in Paris," in which Adam Goldberg played the American boyfriend of Delpy's Parisian character, a photographer named Marion.
She's now shifted the story across the Atlantic and later a few years. Marion lives with radio talk show host Mingus (Rock) and their children. But when Marion's family comes to visit from Paris (including her mischievous father, played by Delpy's real father, Albert Delpy), the farce of Franco-American culture clash resumes.
It's the third feature directed by Delpy, the actress of Kryzsztof Kieslowski's "Three Colors" trilogy and "Before Sunrise." (She also co-wrote it with Alexia Landeau.) For Rock, it's another unlikely French connection, following his 2007 remake of an Eric Rohmer film in "I Think I Love My Wife."
They sat down for an interview ahead of the film's Tribeca Film Festival premiere to discuss "2 Days in New York," which opens in theaters August 10.
AP: How did you two get together for this?
Delpy: I was a hooker.
Rock: Innocent enough!