Published on 02/11/2024 15:17
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“She is in a fight to impose the school”: actress Alexandra Lamy plays Louise Violet in a period film
Saturday November 2, 13 Heures meets Alexandra Lamy, starring in “Louise Violet”, where she plays a teacher in the last century who will do everything to impose the school that has become secular and compulsory in fairly recalcitrant countryside.
Saturday November 2, go to a school to meet Alexandra Lamy and her character, an activist teacher in 1889. “I remember that everyone thought I was a little genius (…) because I already knew how to read”she remembers, when she was “a little lazy, a little dissipated” at school. She compares her character to her acting debut “in the 2000s”where it was more difficult for women to“have leading roles and roles that have things to tell”.
Alexandra Lamy nevertheless describes herself as “tenacious”. She says: “I was taken out through the door, I came in through the window. I often got the castings on the second try”. The actress also remembers the criticism: “I beat myself up about it and said to myself it doesn’t matter, it toughened me up, I’m proud of myself”. Her favorite object: a small notebook in which she writes in the criterium.
Watch the full interview in the video above
