In the rap world, he is known as Fianso. In the cinema, TV series or on the boards of Avignon, he is Sofiane Zermani. A well-known rapper and young up-and-comer, the 30-year-old is both a responsible family man and a loudmouth from Seine-Saint-Denis, a talented actor and a seasoned businessman. He has built an unparalleled career in the French landscape since his debut at the turn of the 2010s. He made himself known by posting on YouTube, from 2016, his #JesuispasséchezSo videos shot in the housing estates the most sensitive in France, going so far as to block the A3 motorway, in 2017, for the purposes of a clip.
Crowned with several platinum discs and sentenced to four months in prison suspended for this dangerous demonstration, he very quickly became the boss of the Affranchis Music label, where he notably brought out Soolking and Heuss l’Enfoiré, both unearthed in his webcast “Enter the Circle » and today famous in French rap.
“I hurt myself. I do a lot of sports, I have a hell of discipline. Sofiane Zermani
But he is also a theater enthusiast. He was in Avignon this summer with Variations Shakespeare, a creation combining sonnets and excerpts from the play The Two Gentlemen of Veronaafter playing in The Death of Achilles, by Wajdi Mouawad, in 2021, and in an adaptation of Gatsby the magnificent, by Francis Scott Fitzgerald, in 2019. In this new school year, we will also see it on the screens. He plays police inspector Lyes Bouaouni, in the detective series Out of season, aired from 1er September on France 3, and the devious and tormented freediver Pascal Gauthier in the feature film Under control, available from Friday 9 on Netflix.
For this film, Sofiane Zermani kept the line he had obtained for his role in the Canal+ series The Savages (2019), by Rebecca Zlotowski, adapted from the series of novels by Sabri Louatah. Because he wanted his character as a manipulative terrorist to be bony, the actor had lost 15 kilos, which he never regained. “I hurt myself, does he recognize. I do a lot of sports, I have a hell of discipline. » He was impressed by the freedivers he met to prepare the film. “They are very sharp guys. Palmer in depth, it makes you muscular in the thighs. I wanted to stick to that. In addition, the dictatorship of the combination means that if you have a fat fart, you’re dead. »
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