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Why Alice Da Luz Gomes is the real revelation of the Lent series

10 million. This is the number of views generated in one week by an extract from the series produced by Apple TV+, Lent. Original , it stages the impeccable Benjamin I could in the ofAntonin Lentegotic chief at the origin of French high gastronomy – one of the jewels of our culture. Next to him, known faces, Lyna Khoudri has Jérémie Renierand a new talent that has just robbed the show to the rest of the casting – ALICE DA LUZ GOMES. Willingly compared to Available Ayo On X (formerly Twitter), in that his character, Agathe leads in the dance in the duo formed with Antonin (like chef Sydney Adamu, the character ofCompletioncan do it in the kitchen of the American series The Bear facing Jeremy Allen White), the actress confirms her talent after being revealed in the film Twist in Bamako of Robert Guédiguian (2021). The opportunity to exchange with a budding actress, under the still shy sun in March in Paris.

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She has already said it during several interviews, and repeats it again: the cast of Twist in Bamakoher first film as an actress, ALICE DA LUZ GOMES The “Catimini” pass. At a time when the names of the cinema talents are tracking, looking for a form of nepotism, difficult to find anything who brings the young woman closer to industry. Which does not detract from its rare elegance. Faced with us, she chooses her with dexterity, precision – as the trace of her visit to the University of Law of Assas. A parenthesis in an exemplary course in every way for that which has grown in the Parisian suburbs, second of a siblings of seven . “My brothers and sisters are my friends, she says. Those I call first.” Rocked by the great popular comedies that his father affects, carried by figures like Louis de Funès has Jackie Chan, ALICE DA LUZ GOMES does not perceive cinema as a that could welcome it. Not immediately, at least. “The first time I watched the César? This year!” Smiles the one who spent her afternoons in of her father’s favorite action films. “I saw it all from afar,” she recalls. “For me, the people we saw in the films were born there, and they were going to die there!”

It is still thanks to her parents that the girl tries out to all sports, or almost. “Like a way to stimulate us” she half jokes. She quotes dance, then more cultural activities, such as the violin, and above all, the theater. It was there, on the boards, that she discovers a new version of herself. An alter-ego that she did not yet know. She, thin, shy, first in the class (or almost), obtains her first big role in CM2 – that of a lit director, flirting with tyranny. As with everything, she prepares it with a rigor which forces respect. And when the big evening arrives, ALICE DA LUZ GOMES proves. “People who saw me went to tell my mother that I had to do theater! I was barely nine, but I think she took it very seriously …”

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