This Monday, December 19, 2022, Béatrice Dalle celebrates her 58th birthday. The opportunity to return to the film that propelled the actress, “37°2 in the morning”. A work that left him with a painful memory because of an intimate scene…
A movie that has influenced a whole generation. On April 9, 1986,37°2 in the morningarrives in dark rooms and creates a real earthquake. The feature film by Jean-Jacques Beineix, retracing the story of a cursed writer who finally finds glory in the admiring gaze of a young woman, is then Forbidden to under 16s and almost did not see the light of day because ofa long love scene between its two hitherto unknown actors, Jean-Hugues Anglade and Béatrice Dalle. The latter, which is blowing out its 58th candle this Monday, December 19, 2022, has also kept an unforgettable memory of this scene which marked the history of the seventh hexagonal art…
“It was horrible. I hadn’t been told that the whole team would be on set. We had to do close-ups, so we had to retake each on our own, Jean-Hugues and me”, she remembered with the Parisian in January 2021. If filming was very difficult for the former companion of rapper Joey Starr, the viewing of this scene was just as much, as she detailed to our colleagues: “At the first screening of the film, my mother was behind me: I come from a religious, Catholic family, so I melted under the seat.”
Béatrice Dalle grateful for this shoot
If Béatrice Dalle took her first steps in such a remarkable film, this one is no less satisfied with her workas she told Le Parisien: “But I’m proud of the film: there’s no gratuitous scene.” It is also thanks to37°2 in the morningthat she received a César nomination for best actress, but also took off: “I bought an apartment. The bank gave me credit: the more you have, the more they give you. And then, I received lots of offers. I came from a family without money: the cinema worked for me, so I continued.” Moreover, during the disappearance of Jean-Jacques Beineix, on January 13, 2022, Béatrice Dalle had returned to him a vibrant tribute on social media:Zorg and Betty are orphans… One of the most beautiful pages of my life has just turned… I love you.”