Her cascade of red hair, her titi Parisian accent and her little sister Samantha: no one can forget Penelope, Vic’s best friend in The party (1980), played by Sheila O’Connor. At that time, the 14-year-old girl was no better known than Sophie Marceau and the success of the film fell on her, totally unexpectedly, as for all teenagers.
The film, which has become totally cult, is followed by a second opus two years later, in which she returns. However, if Sophie Marceau then continued her long and successful career, this was not the case for her friend at the time, who experienced success in a different way. Guest on the show It starts todayshe told Faustine Bollaert the descent into hell experienced at the end of her adolescence.
After the humiliation of the teachers, she suffers the gaze of her classmates and the public. “There have been malice, jealousies“, has she. “We received threatening letters with skulls, written in blood“. Violent reactions that she could not have anticipated.”We say to ourselves: ‘Why am I triggering this in others? What did I do ? It’s a nice movie!“