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Luigi Kröner, Elsa Lunghini's son, takes his first steps in Here it all begins broadcast on TF1 this Thursday January 23. The actor confided in Gala about his atypical career, as well as his private life.
Who is Luigi Kröner, Elsa Lunghini's son? Born on July 27, 1994, the young 30-year-old actor is the fruit of the love of the French actress and Peter Kröner, a German singer, who separated five years after his birth. Today an actor, he takes his first steps this Thursday, January 23 in Here it all beginsthe successful TF1 soap opera, in which her mother has played Clotilde Armand for more than four years. How did he get interested in comedy and what is his background, Gala reveals everything you need to know about chef Romain Valdine's interpreter.
Luigi Kröner has an atypical career path. “I left school in third grade. I didn't go to high school.”he tells us about his schooling. Although studies did not interest him much, the young man is truly passionate about sport. In particular, he started boxing at the age of 10, then competing the following year. He also freely admits to having been a somewhat turbulent and difficult child. Despite the place of combat sports in his daily life, he tried to resume his studies in applied arts at the age of 17, which was not a great success. “That’s not really what I wanted to do with my life at that point.”he shares. Exit studies, Elsa Lunghini's son worked in catering the following year, before stopping a few months later for a golden opportunity: taking over the boxing gym in which he trained in Évry (Essonne) and pass a diploma to become a coach specializing in combat sports.
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Luigi Kröner was destined for a career in combat sports, but his hopes were finally dashed when the famous fight which was to make him professional was canceled due to Covid19. “I fought as an amateur from the age of 11 to 25, my club and the people who took care of me thought I would turn professional”he affirms, and adds over this long period of his life: “I forced myself to fight, I had something to come out in me, but I never liked doing that. » The actor has always been influenced by music and comedy thanks to his parents, although they did not push him to follow this path. “Deep down, I felt that I was missing something… I was a creative, sensitive boy, and I put all that aside for boxing. I wasn't necessarily the happiest and at that moment I asked myself questions”explains the 30-year-old young man.
And it was finally at his 25th birthday that he had a meeting that changed his career, that of his agent Sophie Lemaître who knew his mother well. “It was she who saw something in me and asked me to join her agency,” he assures. Luigi Kröner then begins to go to castings, but with little seriousness. He still landed his first roles in television series. “It was something a little vague that I didn’t really believe in”continues the actor. He finally became passionate about this work at the end of confinement when he played a nurse in an advertisement for the Intermarché store. “Something happened… I managed to reconnect with things that lived inside me. It was great! “, he remembers. He then continued with roles in Commissioner Magellan, Captain Marleau, Research section, Candice Renoiror even The New Look. As for his private life, Luigi Kröner reveals to us that he has been single for several months after having been in a relationship for a little over a year with the actress Raphaële Volkoff, known for her role as Roxane in Tomorrow belongs to us .
