Before becoming the distinguished actress that we know, Adèle Exarchopoulos sold sandwiches in the Bercy performance hall in Paris. It must be said that his father is the “pit boss” of the place as she says. This did not prevent her from asserting herself as an actress while keeping her feet on the ground. However, her beginnings were such that she could have gotten a big head.
However, having parents grounded in reality allowed him to remain simple. “This whole environment where suddenly everyone is watching your daughter, me who today I am a mother, I can completely understand the worry that it can cause but I think that they were very reassured by the people with whom I was working, and then they saw me happy” confided the one who became pregnant at the age of 22 this Sunday, October 6 in the portrait of Seven to Eight on Tf1.
In 2013, Adèle Exarchopoulos’ career took a new turn after the film Adèle’s life by Abdellatif Kechiche, in which she plays the leading role, won the Palme d’Or at the Cannes Film Festival. A media whirlwind during which she was warned by her father. And the latter was not just content to give him this advice.
Adèle Exarchopoulos: Her father very angry after his daughter was asked to… change her name
Still in the portrait of Seven to EightAdèle Exarchopoulos spoke of this time when people in the trade presented him with the idea of changing his nameits Greek origin being a little long for posters. Far from being categorical, Adèle Exarchopoulos then explains that she called her father to discuss it with him: “He doesn’t say much to me but I sense that he doesn’t like it at all.“And suffice to say that the actress felt things well.
So during filming, everything went well until the day after this phone call: “I arrive at the canteen and I feel a bad atmosphere around me. I learn that my father called production and lost his temper. He said ‘My daughter, she’s a minor, no one is telling her to change her name. She has a Greek name, it stays like that, that’s how it is!” Looking back, Adèle Exarchopoulos has distanced herself from the situation and even admits to understanding her father’s reaction. One more reason for him to be proud to see this name at the top of the bill, particularly on that of phew lovethe film by Gilles Lellouche in theaters on October 16, in which his daughter plays François Civil.
