The face of Emilie Dequenne will remain engraved in the memory of the public … Revealed by Rosetta Dardenne brothers – a role which had earned him the prize for female interpretation at the Cannes Film Festival -, the Belgian actress marked the cinema with films such as The wolf pact, To lose the reason or The things we say, the things we do. On March 16, it died at only 43, swept away by a corticosurrenaloma, rare cancer diagnosed in 2023. After a period of remission in April 2024, the disease finally reoffended a few months later.
If she leaves behind a good career, Émilie Dequenne above all leaves an immense void for her relatives: her husband, actor Michel Ferracci, and her daughter Milla, born in 2002 from her relationship with DJ Alexandre Savarese. Both will undoubtedly have a lot of emotion when discovering, This Friday, May 9 on France 2, the latest television appearance of the actress. Despite the disease, Émilie Dequenne had agreed, in May 2024, to shoot an unprecedented episode of the series Captain Marleautitled The 7th dance. She embodies Véronique Rémonville, a woman head of an area welcoming a dance festival, faced with the disappearance of her daughter and the murder of her husband’s brother, played by Grégoire Bonnet. Shot in the Paris region, this fiction will have been for the actress a real puff of oxygen.
Corinne Masiero remembers her latest shooting with Emilie Dequenne
In an interview with our colleagues from TV leisureCorinne Masiero confided on the set of this episode of which she shares the poster with Emilie Dequenne. “I discovered an exceptional, bright, joyful and empathetic woman. Someone very laughing too. I witnessed his courage. We knew she was sick. She was not hiding from it and was sometimes tired. But it was our ray of sunshine “she detailed with emotion. The actress also engaged in the atmosphere that reigned on the set and assured that “It was not [ni] sad or difficult “. “On the contrary, Emilie’s good humor was contagious. Whatever her state of fatigue, she had this spark in her gaze. She was happy to play, to be with us”, said Corinne Masiero.
Then detail: “Her daughter, Milla Savarese, worked as a makeup artistand her husband, Michel Ferracci, had a small role. It was an almost family atmosphere “. Captain’s star Marleau wishes to keep the image of a “Great artist”. But also, “Her laugh, knowing what she was going through”. “We were all aware, she first, thatShe was in her end of lifebut curiously, it was happy. His way of approaching the disease was incredible. At no time did she use it to apit on her fate or show that she was courageous. It is someone who made you want to live. It is, and it will remain, one of my most beautiful shoots “continued the artist.
A minute of silence observed for Emilie DEQUENNE
The latter also revealed that she was on the set of the series when she learned the sad news of the death of Emilie Dequenne. “Josée asked for a minute of silence on the set. It was painful and very strong. Émilie left an imprint in all of us “, Admitted Corinne Masiero. Then conclude: “Death is part of life and we must welcome it like that. It makes us feel alive and reminds us of taking advantage of every moment”.
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