“Having such a female character is rare on screen”, meeting with the director of the film “Rodeo”

After causing a sensation at Cannes, “Rodeo”, favorite of the Un Certain Regard jury, will be released in theaters this Wednesday. Julie Ledru bursts the screen with Julia, a character in the galley, passionate about cross-bitumen (not to be confused with the urban rodeo) and who steals motorcycles in a quest for recognition launched at a hundred miles an hour. Her career got off to a flying start as the 27-year-old actress from the Paris region delivered her first performance in the cinema with a singular role that was important to her to embody.

“Julia has something unique and that exists in real life, Julie Ledru told us in the culture interview, every Saturday on the franceinfo antenna. Many spectators, men or women, tell me that it’s great to have this representation in the cinema and this guide: ‘I am different but I am'”. The character actually never seeks to seduce, preferring to dismiss appearances, to appear unvarnished, irreverent, even wild.

Is she masculine or feminine? No matter. Both at the same time, sometimes in a dress, sometimes in a fluorescent FC Barcelona football shirt. And we won’t know either if Julia’s desires have a particular kind, what emotions she feels for the fellow travelers with whom she gets closer, Kais (Yanis Lakfi) and Ophélie (Antonia Buresi). In short, a non-binary being. “He is a character that I looked for a lot on the screen and that I found little”, explains the director Lola Quivoron.