Jane Birkin has spent years honoring the musical legacy of her late romantic partner, Serge Gainsbourg. But she says the first time she met him she was completely turned off. “He looked at me like I was the last thing he wanted to see,” Birkin, 73, tells The Post of her audition with Gainsbourg for the 1969 French film “Slogan,” where he’d already been cast as the male lead.
The London-born Birkin, meanwhile, says that at 20 years old she was “gawky,” inexperienced as an actress and didn’t even speak French.
In her mind, Gainsbourg wasn’t having it: “I got the impression that he was sarcastic, a tiny bit cool and not particularly welcoming,” she says of her would-be co-star.
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