An actress you wish could have worked with Ingmar Bergman?

Well I would pick Blanchett and the reason for that is Bergman was in a lot of ways the most modern great actress of her time - that's one reason she gets passed over nowadays because she has no simple style to latch onto - in some ways more than Hepburn/Leigh/Davis - who I love but are very stylized, easy to caricature in some ways.

Blanchett is like this and does it all the time and drags you along every second of the way too (think of how she reacts when the dentist hits on her in Blue Jasmine - and how she goes through a million things in mere seconds - some of them physically comedic !?!).

Look at this scene, one of my favorite female acted scenes ever. This scene is just absurd - Bergman is asked to be weak, but strong, calculating, thinking, but overwhelmed....... shrill, mad, but not really mad, OTT and subtle - you think along with her because of how she sells this. She's remarkable in this scene and not stylized in any way at all - you have no way of knowing how this scene will end and how quietly she will end it too.......that's Blanchett........way before Blanchett.

They'd get along swimmingly with each other I bet.....

Greta Garbo and Marion Cotillard.

Really interesting, beautiful choices - especially Wyman! 

I dunno.... of all modern actresses Nicole Kidman feels like an automatic good answer when you talk about being able to fit seamlessly into the body of work of almost any auteur. She's like a vessel that can mould herself to the wishes of a director, but also brings her own style and ideas to the table.I liked how she gave a brilliant performance for Lars Von Trier in Dogville, then basically decided she was one and done with him, despite him trying hard to get her back for more of his movies. I think she'd slot comfortably into Bergman's style. She seems to have a greater grasp of cinema, it's history and her place in it than most of her peers. It serves her well and informs her flexibility as an actor.

While I don't rate her quite as highly as some, I think Marion Cottiliard's style is made for Bergman.

It's funny because to me I am not really touched by 2 of those performances - and I think I'm obviously way in the minority - but the way Von Trier (who I loathe) marks out those characters is so off-putting to me putting them as overtly "tragic" with no growth and not believable in the simplest human ways drowns the actresses good work out by clashing with his formalism.

Watson is a tour de force though - even though LvT hates her character - he's legit sexist in how he draws female characters imo- the other 2 you are are always kept at arms length from by Von Trier's style - songs, framing, narration, storytelling devices - at least in BtW he's allowing a great performance (in a misguided and ugly film imo)..........in the other two he pretentiously thinks he's creating what "seems" like one. 
 
I almost always dislike the acting in his films and it always is praised rapturously ........huge disconnect for me with his work.

pacinoyes - I don't think von Trier is sexist; I think his characters are victims of sexism.

MsMovieStar - Oh honey, I love your Geraldine Chaplin suggestion!

"There has to be a chemistry between you and a director," [Bonham Carter] says. "And Lars von Trier struck me as a bit of a weirdo. I got a weird vibe off him, so it was never going to work. You have to be able to trust people, or what's the point in spending time in their company?"

Even the actresses who genuinely enjoy working with him (Dunst, Kidman, Thurman, Gainsbourg, etc.) don't deny that he's weird and can be really mean - Bjork and Bonham Carter obviously hated their experiences with him, and that's fine, but I don't think that means he's sexist. Just my $0.02.