Anamaria Vartolomei, starring in “The Count of Monte Cristo” and “Maria”

The actress plays Maria Schneider in “Maria”, released last week, and will also be on screen from Friday in the new adaptation of “The Count of Monte Cristo”. Franceinfo collected the secrets of this actress with strong professional choices.

In a few days, she will be in not one, but two French films at the same time in theaters. The actress Anamaria Vartolomei plays Maria Schneider in Maria by Jessica Palud, released on June 19 and Friday June 28, she plays Haydée in the new adaptation of Count of Monte Cristo. An important presence on screen for an actress who often chooses her roles according to her personal convictions.

February 2022. Anamaria Vartolomei receives the César for female revelation and thanks Annie Ernaux, author of The Event, adapted by Audrey Diwan. It was this role that revealed her to the general public, even though she had debuted ten years earlier.

Embodying a text by the French Nobel Prize winner for literature who became a figure in the feminist struggle, and playing Maria Schneider, a woman raped, flouted and humiliated, is the same approach because Anamaria Vartolomei is motivated by her intimate commitments. “I have never done things that went against what I wanted to defend as a message. So it’s true that I am lucky to receive these roles,” she confides.

“It’s a huge luxury to have access to these roles and I choose to play them because they are so closely aligned with who I am.”

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“I try to ensure that my films are my own political platform”, she explains. That same evening in 2022, at the Césars, she also thanked her parents, who, in 2001, had left Romania for France thinking about their daughter’s future. His father worked in construction, his mother, a trained nurse, did housework.

Just a few weeks ago, Anamaria Vartolomei climbed the steps of Cannes twice, for Maria And the count of Monte Cristoand with impressive maturity at only 25 years old, she says she is enjoying the moment while keeping her feet on the ground. “It’s still the pleasure of playing, of tackling totally different roles, of having fun. I did it with Bruno Dumont [réalisateur de L’Empire]. Monte Cristo, it was also a challenge because I had to compose an accent but it was a character totally opposite to what I was able to do. Mariaa portrait of such a rich woman”.

“I think I still have a lot of desire for things that are very different but which will come in due time, without anticipating the future and trying to draw up a career plan that could just ruin the fun.”

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Anamaria Vartolomei will also be in the next film by South Korean Bong Joon-Ho, the star director of Parasite.