More than ever, his face is everywhere. Laetitia Casta is currently playing in the movie The crusade, signed by her husband Louis Garrel, but also at the head of the only-en-scene show Clara Haskil, prelude and fugue – based on the life of the Romanian Jewish pianist prodigy. Since she was a teenager, the actress has navigated a world linked to images and her appearance is scrutinized from A to Z, catwalks to film sets … even if it means that some sometimes go overboard.
If creators and filmmakers have torn Laetitia Casta away, it is because she was thinking outside the box. Preserving this natural beauty, however, has been a struggle for the mother of Sahteene, Orlando, Athena and Azel. “I was not tall, I was a little round, she recalls in the columns of the magazine Telerama. I have even been called a ‘fat cow’. They wanted to transform me, change my teeth.“Many remember her from the movie Asterix and Obelix against Caesar, while she played Falbala in 1999. But this role had earned her a new affront.
Maybe he was afraid that I would bite!
“Claude zidi told me that my canines are too sharp and even asked me if we could file them, reveals the 43-year-old actress. Maybe he was afraid that I would bite! I resisted, I never wanted to change anything. I got this strong character from my upbringing, which was not all flawed. At home, there was no question of being defeated, nor of complaining. “Laetitia Casta grew up seeing her parents work hard. A world where appearances were not that important.
Her father was constantly on construction sites, her mother was an accountant and then a housewife. “When I started, my parents told me that there were girls prettier than me, that that was not what mattered, notes Laetitia Casta. They had a sense of the realities of modest people. They were afraid that I would be disappointed, although I was not expecting much. I never dreamed of being a model. It was a job at the time that was not as envied as it is today. Beauty has never been a trophy or a triumph for me. “A good fairy has endowed it with it, by leaning over its cradle, from birth …
Find the interview with Laetitia Casta in the Télérama magazine, n ° 3756 of January 5, 2022.