If she had to choose an era, actress and director Géraldine Nakache would say “Today”because she has “the feeling that this is the moment when perhaps all this will allow us to clean up the sewers”. In any case, she has “want to believe it”. She stars in the series Children are kingsadaptation by Disney of the best-selling book by Delphine de Vigan, available October 23, 2024, with Doria Tillier, Panayotis Pascot, Chantal Lauby, Jacques Weber, India Hair and Oussama Kheddam.
In Children are kingsa 6-year-old little girl, Kimmy, who has become a social media star with millions of subscribers thanks to her mother who manages it all, disappears. Géraldine Nakache is the investigating police officer responsible for finding the little girl.
According to her, “it’s a form of x-ray of society as it is today, which does not pass judgment, but which explains to you that we are where we are. What are we doing? may be a matter of adjusting the slider, but maybe it’s time to adjust them because we’re getting a little caught up in all this.”
Potential executioners
His character knows nothing about social networks and finds himself facing a world of hyper-connected kids, always with a smartphone in hand, the business of child influencers, cyberbullying, the monetization of content, trends on TikTok and at the beginning, she doesn’t understand anything about this new world. “I’m not far from that, that’s what links me to this characterconfides Géraldine Nakache. What is dizzying is the number of potential executioners.” who can harm these children.
As for her own relationship with social media, she admits that it is “crappy”.“I spend an infinite amount of time on it. I’m from the generation of people who don’t post and who don’t film what they’re eating, and for all that, I’m going to watch what people are eating, like a little addiction, I must admit.“
The reassuring music of humor
Often seen in comedies, Géraldine Nakache has played more serious roles in recent years, as in You didn’t see anything eithera film about pregnancy denial, or in the thriller Vacation. Concerning Children are kingsshe declared: “I was afraid to play this character because I was afraid that someone was going to steal something from me, that they hadn’t caught until then”. She explains: “Sébastien Marnier (the director of the series) wanted me to keep quiet. And if I keep quiet, I imagine that you can see something in my eyes. I was worried about that. The delivery, the text, the verb, the music of humor, it’s a good shield since it’s the one I have in life too. It reassures me But there was something too interesting to say in this series for. refuse the role.”
Asked about the commemoration of the October 7 attack in Israel, she emphasizes having never been known or recognized as Jewish before. “But all of a sudden, I was asked questions that I hadn’t been asked before. It saddened me at first, even disturbed me. We were all asked to choose a parish, and I thought that my parish was that of women, not necessarily that of Jewish women. But ultimately, I am Jewish and I never wanted to hide it, even if my life is not that. parish, nor communitarianism.”
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