The Belgian actress Cécile de France, 46, from 23 December at the cinema in Lost Illusions, based on Balzac’s novel and directed by Xavier Giannoli. She plays Louise, Lucien de Rubempré’s lover, a prisoner
of his life and tormented by remorse.
Her role is unforgettable – a true cult – of a woman who goes to work in a factory, has a boss who tries to rape her and he ends up in small pieces and canned like his company does with tuna …
«Rebels, to which he refers, had amused me a lot. I like strong figures, Quentin Tarantino-like, women who don’t need men to decide what will happen to their lives. I prefer those who act and are not afraid of making mistakes, if necessary, rather than becoming a victim ».
After all, he belongs to the generation he grew up with Thelma & Louise: Do you remember the impact that story had on you?
“Very good. I was a teenager at the time, and those free women who take their destiny in their hands had changed my point of view. Above all, he had eliminated some prejudices in this regard ».
Is the struggle for gender equality truly transforming the condition of women?
“Absolutely yes. Two years ago they paid me for the first time like my colleague, before that would have been unthinkable. I have never personally fought for equality, but I am very grateful to the women who have done it and continue to do so ».
She is a contemporary woman, a working mother: your motto?
“Never stay more than four months a year away from home. And even if I am on a set abroad for work, I try to see the guys every weekend ».
At home, on the other hand, do you have a place of your own that no one can enter?
“I have a special room that I call ‘my studio’. I lock myself in and when I’m there everyone knows it’s like I don’t exist. I enter my cave, it is the place where I learn and where I prepare myself ».
Do you believe in God?
“Not in the sense of a single creator: I believe in the invisible. My faith is more a philosophical reflection on the spirit of nature and on the umbilical cord that bound us to her and which we have cut ».
Will your children change the world?
«I am optimistic: I think so, even if there are those who say it is too late. I try to do my best. We live in the countryside, an hour north of Paris, and every day I teach my kids to get involved in the beauty of nature, to respect it and protect it. Whatever happens, they will be adults different from how we have been ».
Not from her, who has her own garden and who has just made a film in which she is a fisherwoman …
«The Passenger, a film shot on a tiny budget in Brittany with a first-time French director, Héloïse Pelloquet. I can tell you that I am a sailor who fishes for lobsters and crustaceans, but no more: I have not yet thought of the right way to present this woman to the world … ».
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