Only a few days left before the release of Mélanie Laurent’s latest film project, a film titled Thieves in which Adèle Exarchopoulos plays Alex and opposite Isabelle Adjani, Philippe Katerine, Manon Bresch and Félix Moati. Wednesday November 1, 2023, the long-awaited feature film should finally land on Netflix. In full promotion of this work, the 40-year-old director and actress continues interviews.
This Friday, October 27, 2023, she was the guest of Damien Thévenot on the set of the flagship France 2 show, Telematin. The opportunity for the filmmaker to share a particularly violent episode of filming. While Adèle Exarchopoulos was filming an action scene, she suffered a blow to the face which resulted in a broken nose.
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“She was extraordinary”
“It was a rehearsal and there was a change in choreography that she forgot for a second and it went off and we had to stop for three weeks”, first confided Mélanie Laurent. More concerned about the health of her protégé than by the delays that this incident caused, the director subsequently praised the professionalism of her actress, whom she found “extraordinary”.
“The blow went away and we had to stop for three weeks” Mélanie Laurent tells how Adèle Exarchopoulos broke her nose on the set of “Thieves”. #Telematinpic.twitter.com/vYwFp2e9AX
— Telematin (@telematin) October 27, 2023
“That’s where I really realized that choosing Adèle was not only because I had written for her, not only because she is a remarkable actress, not only because she is a professional, not only because of all that, but she still passed out, she had blood everywhere and she said to me: ‘I hope you filmed the scene’. That’s the first thing she said”. If Adèle Exarchopoulos showed exceptional courage, Félix Moati, on the other hand, “fainted when he saw that she had fallen.” A surprising anecdote to say the least!
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