He is the rising star of French cinema. Awarded in 2023 a César for Most Promising Actor for her role in the film The Almond Trees, by Valeria Bruni Tedeschi, heroine of My Crime by François Ozon the same year, Nadia Tereszkiewicz returned to the big screen. She plays Rosalie – in the feature film of the same name, by Stéphanie Di Giusto -, a “woman with beard” who decides to no longer hide her secret despite her arranged marriage to Abel.
“Rosalie celebrates this woman’s desire to be what she wants to be, despite everythingexplains Nadia Tereszkiewicz in the columns of the magazine Paris Match. She wants to love, to be loved. She is sunny, she has this rage for life and also her own contradictions. Rebel but in search of recognition. And she is never a victim“It’s a true ode to the freedom to be yourself. But when she found herself on the film set, after being transformed for 4 hours”hair to hair“, the young 27-year-old actress was overcome by strange sensations.
“At the start of filming, I felt ashamed on set, I wasn’t feeling wellshe remembers. I didn’t think I would be so invaded by finding my body covered in hair. I also remember Benoît Magimel’s first look when he discovered me, since his character totally rejects her. It took me a while to tame her, to be able to love Rosalie.“In Stéphanie Di Giusto’s film, Nadia Tereszkiewicz plays opposite Benoît Magimel. However, she experienced a certain form of solitude.
It’s a way of working like any other. To ensure that he was as credible as possible in his discovery of Rosalie, then in his rejection, Benoît Magimel kept his distance for a long time from Nadia Tereszkiewicz. “He needed to create the conditions for Rosalie’s rejectionshe emphasizes. I actually met Benoît on our shared stages. We had been careful not to see each other before, so our meeting took place in fiction. We both experienced something very powerful. A life within a life…”
Find the interview with Nadia Tereszkiewicz in Paris Match magazine on March 28, 2024.
