77th Cannes Film Festival | Five talents to follow

(Paris) The 77^e edition of the Cannes Film Festival (May 14-25) will honor big names in cinema, but, alongside Meryl Streep, Francis Ford Coppola and Catherine Deneuve, new artists should be talked about.

Sebastian Stan

His name will soon be on everyone’s lips: at 41, Sebastian Stan slips into the shoes of Donald Trump, a real estate magnate period long before that of American president in The Apprenticein the running for the Palme d’Or.

The Romanian-born actor was previously known to Marvel fans, thanks to his recurring role in Captain America.

Proof of his eclecticism and his taste for transformation, he played Tommy Lee on screen in a series about his love affair with Pamela Anderson and was rewarded at the last Berlinale for A different manwhere he played… a disfigured man.

Karla Sofia Gascón

In Emilia Pereza film in competition, she plays alongside Selena Gomez and Zoe Saldaña, but she is the star.

Under the direction of Jacques Audiard, the director ofa prophetSpaniard Karla Sofía Gascón plays a Mexican cartel leader who defies the boundaries of identity to become the woman she always knew she could be.

An exciting project mixing musical comedy and drug trafficking. And a golden role for the 52-year-old transgender actress, who has so far subscribed to telenovelas and Mexican productions.

Barry Keoghan

Face of bad boy and performances on the edge: at 31, Barry Keoghan is the rising Irish star, expected at Cannes in Bird as a tattooed gangster.

At the end of 2023, he disturbed more than one spectator in Saltburna social satire where he plays nothing less than a psychopath.

mentally retarded in The Banshees of Inisherinthe actor who, as a child, was tossed from home to home, has already toured under the direction of Yorgos Lanthimos (The killing of the sacred deer) and Christopher Nolan (Dunkirk). He is also Matt Reeves’ Joker, a role he will soon reprise.

Anya Taylor-Joy

We knew her as a redhead and a tormented chess player in The lady’s gamea hit Netflix series during confinement.

Before this role which earned her a Golden Globe and the favors of the house of Dior, Anya Taylor-Joy, 28, stood out in fantastic films like The Witch or in costumes like Emma.

It is at the wheel of racing cars and with her hair blowing in the wind that we find her in Furiosa (presented out of competition on May 15), fifth episode of the Max Max saga, where she takes over the role previously played by Charlize Theron in Fury Road (2015).

Agathe Riedinger

Will she be the new Justine Triet? Agathe Riedinger is one of four directors in competition this year and the only one to present a first film.

The Frenchwoman became known for her short films, including I’m waiting for Jupiteron reality TV, a theme she re-explores in Rough diamond in the running for the Palme d’Or, therefore.

In the film, we follow a young girl obsessed with the idea of ​​becoming someone. Destiny finally smiled on her when she managed to pass a casting for The villa.