“All we can wish for me now is that it continues”; says Leïla Bekhti, a must in recent months

It is an understatement to say that Leïla Bekhti has come a long way since her César for best female hope in 2011 for Everything that shines. And if the 39-year-old actress is very relaxed, with a sincere familiarity, in an interview, she is more anxious when her omnipresence is pointed out to her, she would almost be afraid that we will see her too much.

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And it is true that it is difficult to miss it at the moment: the actress is everywhere, or almost. She plays in the choral film, I will always see your faces by Jeanne Herry (released March 29 at the cinema), as well as in That’s my man by Guillaume Bureau (released April 5). Without forgetting the successful program LOL – Who laughs comes out Currently streaming on Amazon Prime. But she recognizes that she can now allow herself – after around thirty films – to choose projects that correspond to her and “speak” to her.

I shoot in things that I would like to see

Leïla Bekhti, actress

at franceinfo

“That’s super important to me, integrity first, it goes through that. I don’t want to be “strategic”, to tell myself that I’m doing this and then do that or check such box. If I want to see this film, I do it, first and foremost I am a moviegoer. And if I do, I get fully involved, 200%. That’s mainly how I choose.”

Jeanne Herry, who directs it in I will always see your faces wrote the role of Nawel, cashier victim of a robbery, thinking of Leila Bekhti, but she did not know her, and she appreciated her ability to adapt: “The character of Nawel, he has a lot of anger, she suffers a lot. It was something not so easy for Leïla, who told me at the same time ‘Me, I’m not very angry, I don’t like anger and I have already played it a lot’, explains the director to franceinfo. And it’s true, she played it recently, and she plays it very well because she plays very well anyway. But I suggested to him that we go here to seek this anger in something less thunderous.

Humorous register

So what she might be missing is a consecration in the form of a César for best actress, after two nominations in 2012 and 2022, respectively for The source of women And The restless.

“The nights of doubt, the work we can do on the characters, the moments of questioning, of hesitation, it will never be worth a price. It’s always nice to have a price, of course, no one will say the opposite. But this is not an end in itself, and all one can wish me now is that it continues.”

And we can also see and appreciate Leila Bekhti in a more humorous version in The flame, The torch or season 3 of LOL: Who laughs comes out at the moment, but the great friend of Jonathan Cohen and Adèle Exarchopoulos – among others – says that she does not necessarily need to do things with her little band to flourish.