“When I was 5, for my first role, I had learned all the other people’s dialogues by heart”

When we find her in this bobo café at 11e district, she is sitting on the terrace in front of a beer and chatting with the photographer from World, that she has barely met, as if she was an old friend. 26-year-old Rebecca Marder immediately exudes that cheerful ease possessed by those who bond with ease and without apparent hassle. With her jeans, her little black sweater, her hastily knotted hair, her pure features without makeup, she looks like a student. Since 2015, she is above all one of the star actresses of the Comédie-Française and starts an explosive career in cinema.

As she starts to get cold, she crushes her cigarette and offers to fall back inside the bar. After apologizing ten times to the waitress for the inconvenience, she trades her half-eaten beer for a Grenadine diabolo which she sips with relish and which colors her mouth with a pretty cherry hue. The aperitif, in fact, it’s not really his thing: “I pair it with Grandma’s dried out cookies in a tin. “ Seen like that… She prefers dinners. “The aperitif means that we don’t have time for others. “ The worst, for her, the dinner aperitif: “Something tight-fisted”.

Anyway, usually at this time, she prepares to go on the boards “With a mad fright”. “I never drink before playing, I would be afraid that I will fall asleep. ” Since she has just confided in us having ” dizzy “ after her three sips of beer, you take her at her word. When there is glass, it is therefore after the show that it happens, with playmates or even in the summer. His dream aperitif, “A Spritz on a deckchair in southern Italy, the first day of vacation”.

“Spoiled rotten” which connects the roles

Except that a vacation, Rebecca Marder does not have much. When she’s not playing in the theater, she turns and vice versa. At full speed, she takes stock of her life as “Spoiled rotten” which connects the roles. At the Comédie-Française, she is playing two plays until February, The Cherry Orchard and Fanny and Alexandre, December 24 and New Year’s Day included. On the cinema side, we will see her appear, on December 29, in Deception, Arnaud Desplechin’s next film, then, on January 26 – leading role this time -, in A young girl who is doing well, Sandrine Kiberlain’s first feature film, before playing the young Simone Veil in Simone, the journey of the century, the biopic signed Olivier Dahan shot two years ago and which will be on screens in February. Good comrade, she keeps repeating that she has “A lot of luck in this devastated economic context”.

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