At 20 years old, Deva Casselthe eldest daughter of Monica Bellucci and Vincent Cassel is taking off. If it was through modeling that she made herself known, the young girl could not resist the temptation to launch into comedy. Deva played her first major role in The Beautiful Summerby Laura Luchetti, and we will discover her next spring in a new adaptation of the Cheetah for Netflix (with Saul Nanni, her city darling), while waiting to see her in The New Evehis first “American” film directed by Alejandro Monteverde.
Deva Cassel : “Fashion interested me much more than films”
But make no mistake, when the director of La Belle estate sent him the script for his film, it was “before I knew myself if I wanted to make filmsconfides the actress to Madame Figaro. Because my parents are actors, people wanted to make this profession my obvious choice, to choose for me.” Contrary to what one might imagine, following the same path as his parents was not obvious to her: “In reaction, I had a sort of rejection. Without forcing anything, my parents tried to pass on to me a cinema culture, but I was not always receptive. I was almost afraid of knowing too much and of being associated with this universe without my knowing it, fashion interested me much more than films.she specifies.
This film was a trigger, even if “my experience in fashion had already planted the seed. Being mannequin helped me to be more comfortable with my image and my body, with the idea of exposing myself. There is, moreover, an element of play in modeling which helps you to better understand a camera, to gain confidence, to learn to play with facial expressions.”adds Deva Cassel. And his parents, what role do they play in his career ?
Deva Cassel, nepo baby… but not too much
“They advise me but give me a lot of freedomexplains the young actress. When I was 10 or 12, they told me: 'If you want to work in fashion, cinema, medicine, do it. But if you prefer to raise goats in the mountains, that's fine with us too.' They never imposed anything on me, nor did they intercede on my behalf.”insists Deva. And if she necessarily has a girl label – or nepo baby as they say, she recognizes that he “it's true that the doors also open because I'm the daughter of Monica Bellucci and Vincent Cassel. But they can close quickly if I don't do the job. It's up to me to prove through my work and my investment that maybe I have my place on a screen”she persists.
And if that's not the case, she can easily see herself doing something else, “of the artistic direction in the field of fashion, for example”she said. Deva Cassel is aware that at her age, she has “lucky to have found my way thanks to fashion and cinema. (…) I always felt like I wasn't my age. I had to grow up faster because of work and some of life's ups and downs.”
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