A comedy based on the clash of cultures, “The Lucky One” features an Uber driver supposed to play the perfect bride in a bourgeois family. In this role specially created for her, the actress and comedian Camille Lellouche keeps up with the gags and shines with her self-deprecation.
Frank Bellocq’s latest film, “The Lucky One” tells the story of Fiona (Camille Lellouche), an Uber driver recruited by a daddy’s boy to pretend to be his future wife. He hopes to be able to extract money from his rich parents (Michèle Laroque and Gérard Darmon), during an all-expenses-paid weekend in a superb hotel in Morocco. Except that the meeting is not going to go as planned.
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A tailor-made role
A comedy based on the clash of cultures, “The Lucky One” is based almost entirely on the character of Fiona who does not at all have the codes of the bourgeois family in which she finds herself. Impulsive, spontaneous and without filter, the young woman will also bring them a real breath of freshness.
Camille Lellouche admits it straight away: the character of Fiona was entirely composed according to her desires. “The screenwriter and producer of the film called me to tell me that they wanted to write a tailor-made role for me. As I like the clash of cultures, we took inspiration from my own life,” confides the actress in the Vertigo show on September 25.
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“I also come from the suburbs and I worked a lot in restaurants. I served people from many different social backgrounds, including middle-class backgrounds, and I served everyone in the same way,” says the French actress and humorist.
And added: “It’s not because you come from the suburbs that you are scum, a liar, a cheat or a thief. Just like it is not because you come from a bourgeois background that you you’re obviously very well mannered and have great values.”
Consecration with “But I love you”
A now well-recognized artist, Camille Lellouche has also made a name for herself in the field of music. She started playing the piano at the age of 4 and this passion never left her, even in difficult times.
In 2015, Camille Lellouche participated in the telecrochet The Voice and was spotted by the singer Jenifer. The real consecration came five years later with the release of “Mais je t’aime”, a song performed in duet with Grand Corps Malade. Composed by Camille Lellouche, the text and melody remained in a drawer for a few years until the day the slammer confided in her his desire to make a song with her, for his album “Mesdames”.
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“I told him, I have a song. I sat at the piano and sang him the verses and the chorus. Fabien (Grand Corps Malade) then told me ‘you don’t touch anything, I’ll just answer you'”, says Camille Lellouche. The clip, simple and refined, met with phenomenal success. A year later, “Mais je t’aime” won the title of best original song at the Victoires de la Musique.
Writing songs, acting in films or in shows, Camille Lellouche recognizes that she has this visceral need to exist intensely and to leave a trace. The recent release of her first book “Tout te dire” (Stock, March 2024), a sort of autobiographical confession made to her daughter, adds yet another piece to the edifice of the talented artist.
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“The lucky one” by Frank Bellocq, with Camille Lellouche, Michèle Laroque, Lionel Erdogan, Gérard Darmon. To be seen in French-speaking cinemas since September 25, 2024.
