Nicholas Anselmo is one of the main characters of the series Here it all starts since its launch on TF1 in 2020. He plays Eliot Prevost, a young student at the non-binary and pansexual Auguste Armand Institute in whom he finds himself very much.
“I am not him, he is not me, but we are alike on a few points. Me, I will not be able to say what I really am. I am a human being with feminine and masculine energy and the important thing is to have the balance of the two“, he explained during an interview with Nikos Aliagas for 50’Insidethis Saturday, May 7, 2022.
But like his character, Nicolas Anselmo experienced bullying at school because of its difference. In the very first episode ofHere it all begins, Eliot, for example, is mocked by two of his comrades who wonder if he is a woman or a man. To shut them up, the student then lowers his pants. A way of doing things that the 22-year-old actor himself used in his own life. “That I did, I heard ‘pd’ from all sides and I showed my ass in class. I did it quite naturally, it didn’t bother me“, he revealed. And to continue: “There are those who say: ‘but it’s incredible, you’re too strong’ and others who say: ‘it’s not clean, it’s not good…’. And then the teachers and the director, they saw you what.“
Unfortunately, as far back as he can remember, Clément Rémiens’ former playing partner has always been “mocked, judged or even rejected since kindergarten“.”It was: pink is for girls, blue for boys, you dance, you’re a girl… and I didn’t understand all that. Why is it bad?“, he regretted.
Today, Nicolas Anselmo is trying to change things on his own scale by highlighting the LGBTQ+ community through committed roles. “I hope that my character will be able to inspire some or some who suffer from this kind of situation. I know that things are progressing and we must not let go“, he confided in the pages of Stubborn.