As a teenager, Camille Razat wanted to become a war reporter and photographer. Today, she has less opportunity to meet news junkies than lounge journalists, like in the Parisian palace hosting the promotional day for Prodigieuses by Frédéric and Valentin Potier. With Mélanie Robert, her best friend in life, they portray the Pleynet sisters, here renamed Vallois, virtuoso twins who developed a unique pianistic technique after being affected by an orphan genetic disease. Dressed but relaxed, the bubbly blonde takes off her shoes at the start of the interview.
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His naturalness contrasts with the rest; In her spare time, she even raps or plays video games, she confides. We are far from the gallery owner and daughter of owners in Champagne d'Emily in Paris with whom she doesn't share much apart from her first name and a pronounced taste for fashion. This “candy” branded Netflix, which we like to make fun of in Paris fantasized which is nevertheless not so different from that of certain Hollywood classics like Charade (1963) by Stanley Donen, worn by Cary Grant and Audrey Hepburn.
To the British icon, Camille Razat prefers the American Gena Rowlands, to whom she owes her “first cinematic shocks”, A woman under the influence (1974) et Opening Night (1977) in particular. We can no longer count the number of young actresses quoting John Cassavetes' muse. On the other hand, she spares us the somewhat conventional story of the kid who dreamed of one day shining on the screen, even if she already loved putting herself on stage and joined a modeling agency as a teenager, not always for the right reason. cause. “I did ads for underwear and wedding dresses at 15, it was inconsistent”slips the one who today poses for brands that straddle ethics.
Comedy came later, after passing the entrance exam for the Icart photography school without joining. “I wanted to give myself time,” she explains. I joined the Florent course because I had small diction problems: I told myself that theater could help me while having fun, before returning to photography and journalism. » There will be no rewinding; the sequel will confirm her having chosen the plateaus to the detriment of the war zones that she once wanted to cover.
She debuts in the series Disappeared (2015) on France 2. Then she fell in love with William Lebghil in Ami-ami (2018) by Victor Saint-Macary, plays an aspiring actress launching into porn in Love is a party (2018) by Cédric Anger and tries to survive hillbillies eager to kill his volleyball team in the horror comedy Girls With Balls (2018) by Olivier Afonso. On the stage, she mainly succeeds Mélanie Thierry in The Old Blonde Jew by Amanda Sthers, this time directed by the prestigious German filmmaker Volker Schlöndorff, her experience “the most painful and the most wonderful”.
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In Prodigieuses, Camille Razat plays a leading role at the antipodes ofEmily in Paris. While admitting to having learned a lot thanks to Darren Star's soap opera, the one who set up her production company recently starred in the series Les Disparues de la gare for Disney+ and Nero for Netflix and she is currently writing a first short film. In any case, a bright future opens up before her. Far from Parisian clichés no doubt…
