Truculent in the saga What the hell have we done? in the skin of Odile Verneuil, Julia Piaton varies the registers. This November 16, 2022, we find her in the cinema in a poignant social drama, The Committed. She plays opposite Benjamin Lavernhe from the Comédie-Française under the direction of Emilie Frèche, a novelist known for her activism. In this new film, Julia Piaton embodies the lover of a man who hit a young exile pursued by the police. Following his instinct, he hides it in his trunk and brings it back to his partner who lives with her two children. Shaken by the fate of this teenager, he undertakes to help him at all costs.
A new strong performance from the actress who shares her talent for acting with her famous mother. Indeed, she is none other than the daughter of Charlotte of Turckheimwith which she also played in The Aristos or Gosh. For Purepeople.comthe 37-year-old actress first opened up about the weight she felt being “the daughter of”: “I was the one who had a problem with that and lacked clarity on the issue. I was my own executionershe says. You do the same job as your mother, there you go. It’s awesome. You have to accept it more than anything. This is something I struggled to do at first.” An embarrassment now over for the two artists who love to work together.
During the interview, Julia Piaton also made revelations about the arrival of new companions in the life of her mother, after her divorce from her father Jean-Marc Piaton. Thus, in 2012, his mother remarried Zaman Hashemi after four years of relationship: “It’s complicated to agree to see your dad or mom with someone else. I was very hard, very very hard with the newcomersremembered the actress and mother of a 5-year-old boy. I’m very sorry now. I was very naughty.”
The Committedin theaters November 16, 2022