Virginie Efira leads her acting career like a queen. Hard to believe that in the early 2000s when she arrived in France, the Belgian hosted Operation Seduction and New star. She herself would undoubtedly have burst out laughing if, at the time, she had been told that she would become mistress of ceremonies at the Cannes Film Festival in 2022. Yet this has become the case.
Her dreams of cinema, she never thought she would be able to realize them when she left Belgium, for questions of beauty standards: “The Belgian model still seems a little more vague to me… Fashion Week is not omnipresent in Brussels! Is the French model a very fine silhouette, a concealed sexuality with a form of relaxation? In Belgium, the relationship to the body is more direct, less thought out” she confided to Madame Figaro. That’s why she quickly stopped believing that she could one day break into the cinema, “complex” when landing in France: “I saw myself as a nice provincial ‘sympatoche’ and a little vulgar. Someone who had neither the grace nor the codes to realize his cinematic desires“.
It is clear that on this point, she lacked flair! The “provincial“to whom she predicted no career in the cinema was rewarded by several Magritte, a Q d’or and a Bayard for the best interpretation at the Festival international du film francophone de Namur in 2020. Prizes added to the numerous nominations won for the Césars, Globes de Cristal et Lumières for her roles in Goodbye idiots by Albert Dupontel or Benedetta by Paul Verhoeven. The class.
An impossible love did not allow him to win any prizes but it was with the most beautiful gift that Virginie Efira left the filming. In Catherine Corsini’s feature film, she gave the reply to Niels Schneider, whose lover she played. Fiction has joined reality. The actors have been in a relationship since 2018 and appear hand in hand on the red carpets of major events in the 7th art. Love at first sight still sparkling after four years of love. It is perhaps there, his greatest victory.