Before being a recognized actress, winning the César for best female revelation in 2014 for The Life of AdelePalme d’Or at the Cannes Film Festival in 2013, Adèle Exarchopoulos
started like everyone else, in a first feature film. But not just any one.
Indeed, in 2006, she played Lilly in Boxesdirected by Jane Birkin, when she was only 12 years old. A shoot that the actress, now 30 years old, has never forgotten. This Tuesday, April 9, 2024, France 5 broadcast a best-of C to you. The opportunity to rebroadcast the passage fromAdèle Exarchopoulos of October 3, 2023, when she was talking about this filming with the mother of Charlotte Gainsbourg and Lou Doillon.
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“You started music at 13”reminded Anne-Elisabeth Lemoine of Zoé de Sagazan, also a guest on the daily, before addressing the French actress: “this is approximately the age at which Adèle started acting, it was at 12”.
“Exactly, yes, it was so happy”then confirmed Adèle Exarchopoulos before continuing: “It was all my first times and I was very well surrounded because it was a film about Jane’s family ghosts and there were many members of her family in it”.
Subsequently, the presenter of C to you released a sound archive from 2006 in which Jane Birkin praised his young actress. Compliments which really touched the main person concerned. The opportunity for her to tell anecdotes of her cohabitation with the artist who died on July 16, 2023, when she was filming with her.
French actress “traumatized” by Jane Birkin
“We were in Brittany in his family house with all his dogs, we had barbecues all day long. I have extremely caring and sweet memories”first remembered Adèle Exarchopoulos.
She then returned to an evening spent in the Parisian apartment of Jane Birkin : “Sometimes I was sleeping at her place in Paris, I arrived in the apartment and I saw a walk-in bathtub in the bathroom and it traumatized me. There were Toblerone. And I said to her ‘you eat chocolates in your bath? But you’re so lucky’. And she said to me ‘but you can if you sleep here tonight'”. A memory anchored forever in the memory of the young actress.