From sales assistant to photographer, passing by model, Agathe Rousselle has multiplied the hats before finally finding her voice: actress. And her beginnings were sensational, she who embodied the character of Alexia in Titanium, the shock film by Julia Ducournau rewarded at the Cannes Film Festival. At 33, the actress is even named best female hope for the next César. And she intends to take advantage of her momentum to anchor her career.
In the Thursday, February 24 edition of the newspaper Release, who draws her portrait, the young woman talks about this career that is opening up to her, carried, she knows it and assumes it, by a physique that is a bit different from those of which the general public is used. As the daily clarifies, she knows she has “a rather special face“and, moreover, Agathe Rousselle told an anecdote that can make you smile since she has already been called”gentleman at the bakery“. A confusion often linked to her hair style, she who alternates short hair or “completely shaved“. But she doesn’t want to be brought back to that, at the risk of seeing some doors close.”I have the head that I have, that’s it. We know that I can be androgynous and that I am physical: we understood“, she says.
Agathe Rousselle, who shares her life with a fashion designer and lives in Saint-Ouen, hides nothing of her great professional ambitions. “I have to be able to show something else. I want to do comedies, try different genres“, she said, specifying that she wanted to shoot with Eric Judor or for Quentin Dupieux, for example. The young actress, able to transform herself physically as she did on Titanium bending to a dryer [un régime qui favorise la perte de gras, NDLR], even aims internationally at a time when Frenchies are popular with our American neighbors. Thus, she dreams of packing her bags in New York. “Basically, I only believe in work, and Americans work“, she says. From the Césars to the Oscars, there is sometimes only one step…