Brown curls, smooth cheeks and a sweet Cupid’s bow. The face of Saül Benchetrit still evokes childhood, but it is in front of a well-packed espresso, and with all the confidence of her 15 years, that the youngest of the “Promises” evokes her first steps in this strange profession of actor, who is also that of his parents.
At the Series Mania festival, where tender flesh, the series created by Yaël Langmann, was screened in March 2022, everyone was talking only about this “daughter of” who we hadn’t seen growing up and who only looks like herself. In the role of Pauline, the little sister of the transgender teenager Sasha (played by Angèle Metzger), her energy and her presence on the screen had stunned more than one festival-goer.
Before tender fleshthe spark had only made an appearance in I Love America (2022), by Lisa Azuelos. Since then, his schedule has filled up. “I was impatient to pass castings”, says the one who trailed a lot on the sets, as a child, alongside her parents, Anna Mouglalis and Samuel Benchetrit. Without projecting herself specifically into the entertainment world, she does theater at school and, because she “too much fun”begins to take classes outside, so “a bit more professional”.
Her Instagram account caught the eye of Agnès Hurstel, who, even before seeing tender fleshbroadcast on France 5, imagines him to take over the role of Alma, the child pestouille of his series Young and Golri. Season 2, soon on OCS, will follow Alma’s relationship over several years with the one who was her father’s companion in the first season. “I wrote the role for herexplains Agnès Hurstel. This particular age – between 13 and 14 – interests me and I found in Saul what I was looking for to play Alma as a teenager: a fast-moving brain in a child’s body. Even if I had to rewrite scenes because, in the meantime, she had grown up! »
” In tender flesh, I didn’t have as many things to play as Angèle, recalls the young actress, but the role of Pauline taught me a lot, because it is full of nuances. She is a little girl eager to enter the adult world. In Young and Golri, I had a lot of fun, because Alma is my opposite. She’s very wise, in life, I’m a little more disorganized… And then I’d never done a comedy, it’s very technical! »
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Not happy to have returned to “normal” life, she is stamping her feet while waiting for the next casting, the next project. It became his driving force: “As soon as I know I have a shoot in sight, I work twice as hard at school”says this good pupil of 2of, more focused on literary subjects. In the meantime, she eats culture, assumes her taste for rock and David Bowie (“I am a grandmother”), goes to the cinema as much as possible and “binge” the filmography of the actors and filmmakers who interest him.
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