She had remained in the shadows for the moment, here she is in full light: Poppée Bashung, daughter of singer Alain Bashung and actress Chloé Mons, is determined to make a name for herself. Lead actress of the play Orgyat Studio Hébertot in Paris, she surprises and dares things.
The game, she knows well: she has been an actress since her adolescence, during which she entered the Cours Florent, and has already done several small roles in myth on Arte or This music plays for no one of Samuel Benchetrit.
“The scene is familyshe explained in an interview with Parisian. “I always saw my parents on stage and happy. I think I always wanted to be an actress“. Well-known parents, who left her a rather heavy legacy to bear. But her name, which for her does “change nothing“, she assumes it and hopes that the spectators will recognize the talent behind.
“I live with it, it’s my name and it’s my life, I can’t do otherwise. If they’re drawn to that name and see the play and like my work, that’s great. If they are disappointed, so be it. I’m 21 and taking my first steps. What people think of my name is not my problem“. A strong position for this young woman who grew up without her dad. Indeed, the singer Alain Bashung died in 2009, when she was only 8 years old.
“I’m proud of it, I’m proud to be my father’s daughter, to be my parents’ daughter“, she explains, telling herself resolutely “on the side of life“His mother, Chloé Mons, who had been at the heart of a battle for her husband’s inheritance, is also an actress. And Poppea feels it”proud“, “satisfied” and “a little moved” also, to finally see her on stage. Her father, the young girl remembers him as a “fantastic father” and a “amazing artist“.