She dreamed of being a singer or dancer. Since Petite, Léa François had seen herself in an artistic career. Guest of Malika Ménard in Souvenirs of schoolboy On SQool TV, the actress remembers her little girl’s jokes. “From as far as I remember, I always drunk my parents to make them shows and songs at home”she explains. It was in 2008 that she was lucky to win a role that she has never let go since. She joins the cast of More beautiful life, In the role of Barbara Possot and never leaves the cult series again. However, nothing had been played in advance, as she tells her interlocutor, with humor.
This reason for which Léa François was refused to the casting of More beautiful life
“In fact, I had spent a first casting, two or three years ago. At the time, I was a student, I had not too much money and I had to pay for your round trip to Marseille “recalls the actress and mother of two little girls. “And arrived there, the girl had opened the door of the casting office and said: ‘Ah no, it is not possible. You already look too much like someone who is already in the series’. At the time she had told me that I looked like Aurélie Vaneck. I do not know if it was the haircut I had at that time”she recalls. Between 2004 and 2014 (then in 2019 and in 2022), the famous Aurélie Vaneck who also appeared in Household scenes, Camping Paradis et Léo Matteï, brigade of minorsinterpreted Ninon Chaumette. A role that stuck to her with the skin, so much so that she had trouble bouncing when she left the series.
How Léa François was taken in More beautiful life
For his part, after not even having the opportunity to pass the tests, Léa François had left a little demoralized. “I had broken my piggy bank, I had done the three hours of train return alone by crying.” However, she didn’t know it, but her adventure was not going to stop there. “When they reminded me, two years later, to spend a casting for Plus belle la vie, I said to myself: ‘lol’”, she says. She’s going there “Hands in pockets”without much conviction. She passes the tests this time, and she is taken to play the role for which we know her now. “”I arrived for three months and it will be 17 years “laughs the young mother. Today, she juggles between her daily life as a mom and her life on filming sets and theater planks. A balance that suits her so much that she does not imagine, for the time being, to leave the big family of More beautiful life. She admits that when she leaf through her scenario every week, it is a good surprise renewed. “I am still like a kid to discover the texts. It really amuses me”. And if, in the future, she came to leave, she said to herself that she will have benefited, thoroughly, from this rich period of her career.
