Moviegoers have already noticed it… The actress Lyna Khoudri30, and actor Francois Civil, 33, never leave each other. The proof, like our colleagues from First pointed it out in their article “A Zone to Defend: François Civil and Lyna Khoudri, Couple of the Year” released on July 6, 2023, the two actors have played together in no less than four films over the past 18 months.
After giving the cue in “Bac Nord”, “The Three Musketeers”or even doubled together ” Buzz Lightning “the two actors therefore find themselves, without much surprise, in “A Zone To Defend”, a feature film already online on the Disney + platform.
“François Civil and Lyna Khoudri are a duo of opposites, each has an energy in contrast to the other. François, whom I have known for a long time, is an extremely luminous, spontaneous, readable actor – he bases his acting on physical action: this time, I wanted to probe his restless and disturbing interiority, under the traitorous sympathy of the infiltrator. Lyna, for her part, has a mysterious, hard-hitting intensity. I was interested in going to explore with her the strength of a young mother, to deploy and film her bodily power, to seek with her to project her character in a group universe., explained director Romain Cogitore about this breathtaking melodrama which tells the story of a DGSI officer (François Civil) sent under a false identity to infiltrate a Zad. A mission during which he meets Myriam (Lyna Khoudri) and discovers 18 months later that she has a baby.
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“The current goes very well between us”
Asked by our colleagues from Première about the duo he forms with Lyna Khoudri, François Civil said: “It’s true that it’s starting to do a lot! »
“I was involved in this project long before Lyna, because I have known the director, Romain Cogitore since Our resistances (in 2011). He offered me Une Zone à Défendre while I was filming BAC Nord, so it’s been a while…”, then confided the 33-year-old actor.
“And me, when I found out that it was François who was going to be in the film, of course, I was delighted. Because we had just done two projects together, and the current is going really well between us”, indicated in turn the young Franco-Algerian actress.
Later, during the interview, the actress who burst the screen in “Papicha” wanted to clarify that this on-screen duet was not at all premeditated: “You have to tell people: it’s totally a coincidence, a happy coincidence: no one came together and said to themselves: this year, it will be that of the duo François Civil / Lyna Khoudri… But so much the better, because that matches well between us. It can’t be explained. It could have gone very wrong too! We get along well because we are from the same generation, we have the same references, we like the same things. We are also friends off the set today. Life is good, that’s all! »
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