Laure Calamy has been the great revelation of French cinema over the last four years. From Antoinette in the Cévennes. However, it is on the small screen that we notice her. In the cult series, Ten percent where she plays a woman unhappy in love, awkward, endearing but also ambitious and faithful to her convictions. The new star is her! The actress opens up about filming difficult sex scenes on film.
Laure Calamy or the revelation of Ten percent
2015, the public discovers Ten percent on
France 2. A series, created by Dominique Besnehard et Fanny Herreroon the world of artistic agents. And more particularly in the isolation of French cinema. The show is partly based on the real experience of Besnehard, a talent scout like the incendiary Béatrice Dalle in the 80s.
Ten percent suggests another revelation: Laure Calamy. Actress who, from the start, has everything girl next door while breaking the aesthetic standards of very codified entertainment.
Laure Calamy has the dog, she breathes her character into her character Ten percent. An everyday heroine, an average woman in a predominantly male world.
An actress who is not at all afraid
And Ten percent is an incredible springboard for her, Laure Calamy has done well. In the theater, first, since the beginning of the 2000s, then in the background on the big screen. She generally opts for a demanding cinema. We see it at Justine Trietdirector ofAnatomy of a fall. Or even in Rester vertical by the discreet Alain Guiraudie.
She is an actress who is not afraid. Nor elsewhere. She bares herself, figuratively, with her always very naturalistic acting.
Then literally, in a staggered way, in Ten percentsexual, in Avaor frontally in
A Woman of the World. In this last film, in 2021, a year after the revelation Antoinette in the Cévennesshe embodies a prostitute.
Laure Calamy cash on on-screen sex
Just like Laure Calamy’s acting, A Woman of the World is a naturalist drama. Portrait of a lady of joy who does the -famous!- oldest profession in the world. A close-up examination of sex work, rather unvarnished, with explicit scenes performed by the actress herself. Laure Calamy talks about it at
Parisian :
“They [les scènes de sexe, NDLR]
could be very brutal,’shaking‘ for the bodybut I was interested in playing them, because they tell the story of my character.” She adds in the columns of the newspaper: “As for nudity, with theater I’m used to showing my whole body and telling stories with it. For me, it’s more immodest to say ‘i love you‘ in a scene than being filmed naked.” Laure Calamy talks about the relationship with her own body in another interview given to Télérama: “As an actress, my flesh is my battlefield, my body belongs to me, I do with it what I want.” Just like that, it’s said! When we tell you that Laure Calamy is not afraid at all…
