Bullied at school, Laure Calamy wanted to “be invisible” to “not be the target”

Laure Calamy seduces the public with her good humor and her naturalness in interviews as much as with her choice of roles on the small and big screen. These have earned her numerous awards, including a César for best actress in 2020 for Antoinette in the Cévennes. However, there was a time when the actress “razed the walls”.

Adolescence is not easy for anyone, and Laure Calamy was “a bit pissed off”. “I was a bit part of the waste, you see, in classes and all that,” she explains to Léa Salamé on France Inter. Faced with this harassment, the one which exploded among the general public thanks to Ten percent chose to become “completely mute”.

“Not a revenge”

“When all of a sudden you’re a little harassed… I didn’t want to be the target. I wanted to be invisible. I brushed aside the walls, I kept silent, I tried to be as transparent as possible whereas before I was the opposite,” she confides. However, her success today and the roles of free women that she plays on screen where she does not hesitate to play with her body by revealing it are “not revenge”. “Trying to be someone else through fiction, through theater, we have 1,000 faces. It’s exciting,” she adds.

In any case, Laure Calamy has a busy end of the year. She is on display in My Inseparablea film by Anne-Sophie Bailly which comes out on December 25 and in which she stars opposite Charles Peccia-Galletto. She is also in the cast of the series A devoted friendon the Max platform, which is an adaptation of the investigation book The Mythomaniac of the Bataclan by Alexandre Kauffmann. Next year, Laure Calamy should also reunite with all her colleagues from the ASK agency to shoot the film from the series Ten percent.