these 5 things to know about the future mistress of ceremonies of the Cannes Film Festival

Camille Cottin will succeed Virginie Efira and Chiara Mastroianni as mistress of ceremonies of the Cannes Film Festival. It will therefore open on May 14 and close the event on May 25. For this 77th edition of the festival, we can find her alongside a jury chaired by Greta Gerwig, the director of the film barbie which was a hit when it was released in cinemas. This is a big step in the career of the actress who made herself known thanks to her audacity in the series Asshole. Her sketches filmed on a hidden camera where she said out loud what people were thinking were shown in The Before on Canal + in 2013 then in The Grand Journal. This was followed by the film of the same name released in 2015.

The same year, it is series Ten percent broadcast on France 2 which allowed us to see Camille Cottin in another way, in another type of production. She was able to seduce the public even more by playing the real estate agent Andréa Martel. Since then, productions have continued for Camille Cottin, in France but also abroad. She was able to prove her talent, the proof is with this role which was awarded to her by the Cannes Film Festival.

Camille Cottin had another job before becoming an actress

If, today, Camille Cottin is a recognized and renowned actress, that was not always the case. She started her career at age 35. Previously, she had a completely different job… She was an English teacher in a high school ! Indeed, when the actress was younger, she lived for five years in the English capital and it was her parents who encouraged her to take an English degree to become a teacher.

But this job didn’t really seem to suit her because, as she confided on the set of C to you in 2023, it was not “not at all educational”. Her level of English was, moreover, not up to par according to her. She sometimes even invented words! “I was young and not very legitimate (…) I couldn’t really say ‘I don’t know’. (…) Quite honestly, I don’t know if they learned English well,” she said in the show broadcast on France 5.

Camille Cottin started theater with Pierre Palmade

Although Camille Cottin taught English, she was already very attracted to comedy. So, at the same time, she was taking theater classes. She also made her debut in Pierre Palmade’s troupe in 2009. She therefore performed in a café-theatre alongside around thirty other young actors. They all wrote their own sketches and performed them on stage.

Three years then passed before the actress was selected, in 2013, to play in a season of the series Pep’s broadcast on TF1. It is, then in the pellet Asshole that she was truly noticed. The successes then followed one another.

Camille Cottin is an unconditional fan of Dirty dancing

Dirty Dancing is a cult film that has many fans. Camille Cottin is one of his last and she is even completely addicted to this film. In 2014, she revealed to the media Release : “I rented this movie every weekend when I was 14…” while adding: “The guy at the video store told me: “But buy it, it will cost you less”. In this sense, she confided that she could only say good things about the filmmaker Emile Ardolino.

Another film that the actress loves? Tenants, by Kim Ki-duk released in 2004. “It’s one of the most beautiful films I’ve seen… This film has won a lot of awards,” she told the magazine. However, the initial scenario did not excite him. “It was a friend who took me to see this film in 2004. In front of the cinema, she said to me: “It seems like it’s great, it’s Korean and there’s no dialogue.” I wanted to run away, but it was too late,” she began by saying. Ultimately, she didn’t regret going to the cinema that day, quite the contrary.

Camille Cottin’s companion is a little jealous

As an actress, Camille Cottin sometimes has to kiss another man on set… Something that completely displeases his companion Benjamin Mahonwith whom she has been in a relationship since 2005. Indeed, in the comedy Larguée, the character of Rose, played by Camille Cottin, had to kiss another character and this did not really please the father of her children.

She told this anecdote on the set of 50 minutes Inside in 2018. “My partner is an architect. He hasn’t read the script for Larguées, he read the first page and he sees that Rose is making a joke of the DJ.she began to narrate before continuing: “So he says to me: ‘Who’s the DJ?’ I tell him I don’t know and he tells me: ‘Well it will be me! What is there, a sentence? It’ll be fine!'”

Camille Cottin hates social networks

If Camille Cottin has become a real celebrity in 10 years, she is keen to keep her personal life private. In fact, she only rarely confided about her partner as well as her two children. Additionally, she is not active on social media. Her Instagram account only has 10 photos of her and they are only photos taken during photo shoots.

The actress does not post any selfies of herself or any photos of her family. “I don’t see myself unpacking my life on social media. And then like that, I keep the mystery and we say to ourselves that maybe I have a great life.”, she explained to Leisure TV in 2015. You will have understood, we are not likely to see the future mistress of ceremonies of the Cannes Film Festival confiding on Facebook, Tweet or even Instagram.

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