In the columns of Madame Figarothe Belgian favorite of the French looks back on her upbringing, marked by a free mother and an “unconventional” father.
After a maternity break, Virginie Efira returns to the forefront with two highly anticipated films. She is announced opposite Jodie Foster in the next Rebecca Zlotowski, Privacy. And in The Embersby Thomas Kruithof, with Arieh Worthalter. In the meantime, the Belgian most loved by the French has agreed to speak in an exclusive interview given to Madame Figaro. In it, she talks about her return to the sets, evokes her “activist soul”, analyzes the image she reflects among men and women… And also confides in her parents.
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Admitting that she loves taking care of herself, the 47-year-old actress explains that it comes from her mother. “Until I was around 5 years old, my mother worked as a beautician in a Simone Mahler beauty salon, located downstairs from the house. A universe in itself,” summarizes the actress. Before remembering: “I see her again, there, surrounded by creams, I found her so beautiful. I often found her at the institute, where she gave me facial massages. This is significant for a child. She never gave me advice, but what I loved most about her was her joy of life and her freedom. A woman like her never stays alone. The opposite of those who focus too much on themselves…”
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“My father was not a conventional person”
Virginie Efira continues the interview by addressing, this time, her father, “the great feminist”. “Since my earliest childhood, he always told me that you should not depend financially on a man. Everything except “the wife of.” Even later, as a teenager, when I said to show off that I had several boyfriends, he was amused by it,” says the partner of Niels Schneider, with whom she had a little Hiro last year. And obviously, her father's personality was a force in Virginie Efira's journey. “My father was not a conventional person. But studies were very important to him, especially for someone like him, who had risen socially by becoming a hemato-oncologist. He could have worried about his daughter who, in the depths of Brussels, dreamed of cinema by playing Miss Tequila in bars… At 16, when I told him that I would be an actress, he replied: “But at least as have you read all of Racine?” However, he was never shocked by my choices in life, in films, even Blessed, no judgment, ever…” In view of the trajectory of Virginie Efira, awarded the César for best actress in 2023 for her role in the drama See Paris again by Alice Winocour, her parents can be proud.
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