Invited on the set of It starts today for a program on the theme “Teen stars: how to manage celebrity?”, Sheila O’Connor returned to her experience in La Boum, in which she plays Vic’s best friend ( Sophie Marceau), Penelope.
She remembers it like it was yesterday. This Saturday, February 25, the show It starts today received Sheila O’Connorinterpreter of the unforgettable Penelope in the French film The party, released in 1980. The red hair in battle, the still sparkling eyes, the 55-year-old actress came to talk about her experience as a teenage star after the release of Claude Pinoteau’s film. She took the opportunity to deliver some filming anecdotes, revealing that she shot one of the cult scenes of the feature film … 17 times!
This scene is one of the most famous of the film: the one where Vic (Sophie Marceau) and Penelope finally receive an invitation to Raoul’s famous party (Alain Beigel), one of the cool guys from Lycée Henri IV. “There is a little anecdote about this sequencesaid the actress after the broadcast of the scene at the start of the show. We shot it 17 times! The moped had to arrive at the right time, stories of technique, of clouds… Sometimes there is a cloud that will obscure the scene. We couldn’t stand it anymore, this scene! After a while, we were fed up, what!
“We received threatening letters written in blood”
Four decades later, Sheila O’Connor has mixed memories of the years The party. If the film was a great success, she suffered a lot from the repercussions of her sudden celebrity. “In the mailboxes, we received threatening letters with skulls, written in bloodshe recalled. The former social networks were the mailbox. (…) There were also wickedness, jealousies. There, we manage strangely, because we say to ourselves: ‘But why am I triggering this in others? What did I do ? It’s a nice movie.” after The partythe actress got a few roles in TEACHERS by Patrick Schulmann, The Named by Jean-Claude Dague and Snow and Fire by Claude Pinoteau. But in the absence of real opportunities, the one who dreamed “of a career à la Isabelle Huppert“chose to step back. She is now a screenwriter.
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“La Boum” was released in 1980.
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Sheila O’Connor, Sophie Marceau and the teenagers of “La Boum”.
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Alexandre Sterling and Sophie Marceau
Alexandre Sterling and Sophie Marceau
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Alexandre Sterling and Sophie Marceau
Alexandre Sterling and Sophie Marceau
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Faustine Bollaert
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Sheila O’Connor on the set of “It Starts Today”.
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Sophie Marceau and Sheila O’Connor
Sophie Marceau and Sheila O’Connor had to shoot the scene of the invitation to Raoul’s party 17 times.
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Sheila O’Connor
Sheila O’Connor
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Sheila O’Connor has mixed memories of the “La Boum” years.
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On Saturday February 25, the program “It starts today” had the theme “Teen stars: how to manage celebrity?”.