Exit her reign of Miss France, Sonia Rolland now embraces a great career in the 7th art. Emeritus actress, the former beauty queen is as comfortable in front of the cameras as behind. It was in 2014 that Jalil Lespert’s ex launched into directing for the first time with a documentary called Rwanda, from chaos to miracle. Almost 10 years after this first experience, the mother of Tess and Kahina is about to unveil her very first fiction. A film called An unexpected fate inspired by his personal story.
If Sonia Rolland has nothing more to prove, her journey has not yet been easy. Some celebrities had also wanted to warn her about the difficulties of the profession. “It’s not going to be easy. First, you were Miss France and the world of cinema will never accept it. In addition, you are mixed race. If you were black, it would already be very complicated, but maybe simpler”, had notably launched Alain Delon at the end of his reign. Words that seem to have marked her.
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Conscious of having “the ass between two chairs”, as a mestizo, Miss France 2000 recently confessed, the columns of the World, had to prove itself. “From there, I understood that I could no longer screw up. I was proud to represent France, which I adore, but I was also proud to represent Africa. By becoming Miss France, I lived a social and modern fairy tale. What was difficult was that I also had to represent the working class where I come from. Becoming Miss France is not winning the lottery. You get a status, a life public, money, but for those around you, nothing changes. I had to manage this guilt”. A guilt that she should stage in her next film. Feature film that tells the story of Nadia, “a basketball player who will become Miss France a bit by chance”.
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