“When I saw the script and the countless number of ‘shits-cocks-shits’ she said, I was frightened”said the 43-year-old actress. If she has seen others in her career, the ex-partner of Manu Payet couldn’t help but worry about his parents’ reaction when watching the feature film. Before calling back: “However, we never fall into the grotesque, and in the end, it’s quite exhilarating to play, like a permission that I granted myself.”
An exhilarating role, which reminds her of a deal made with her father when she was a child, which she saw fit to repeat with her own 7-year-old daughter. “Every six months, for one minute, I allow her to say all the bad words she wants”, she explains. And to add, cleverly: “If it is a moment of transgression for her, for me, as a mother, it is a way of measuring the extent of her knowledge on the subject.” A parenthesis where everyone finds what they are looking for, as well as the motherwho can assess the damage, than his daughter, who allows herself a moment of pure lexical freedom.
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Fewer comedies for more “serious” roles?
In the columns of TV Starthe director of I’ll go where you go therefore confided in this role which was both jubilant and touching. About her character, Hélène, Sarah’s mother, confides: “She’s a bulldozer, she speaks before thinking. She supports cancer patients poisoned by pesticides, she fights with her heart, but she barks so much that no one hears her. She will understand that we must also knowing how to listen. His trajectory interests me.” Furthermore, the one for whom humor is a question of timing suggested that spectators could find her in more serious roles, since her appearance in the series Hippocrateswhere she plays Nathalie Ferrand, the director of the hospital.
Article written in collaboration with 6Médias.
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