Virginie Efira is the mistress of ceremonies for this 75th edition of the Cannes Film Festival. This Tuesday, May 17, 2022, she therefore has the heavy task of presenting the jury, chaired by an elegant Vincent Lindon, as well as the 21 films in official competition, including three French films Stars at Noon by Claire Denis The Almond Trees by Valeria Bruni-Tedeschi and Sibling by Arnaud Desplechin. To walk the steps of Cannes, did Virginie Efira decide to take her companion Niels Schneider with her? The couple, together since 2018, was born with a rather special thunderbolt.
It’s in the columns of Release, last December, that the 45-year-old Belgian actress agreed to open up about her relationship with Niels Schneider, 34. And to mention their love at first sight”weird“. “It’s very weird to fall in love when you play perversion and incest“, thus commented the mistress of ceremonies of this 75th Cannes Film Festival. An impossible love, by Catherine Corsini, the two actors play lovers, Rachel and Philippe. A little girl named Chantal will then be born from their affair. But Philippe refuses to marry Rachel who does not belong to the same social class as him. Rachel must then raise her daughter alone until her adolescence, during which the latter will be sexually abused by her father.
I still had to drink slightly before
Ali’s mother (8 years old, born of her previous relationship with Mabrouk El Mechri) and her companion have never left each other since. They then gave the reply a second time the following year in Sibyl. For Vogue Paris, Virginie Efira had mentioned the difficulty of filming sex scenes together. “When we had sex scenes together, we didn’t know each other, it was very special. About Sybil [en 2019, NDLR] on the other hand, we were together (…). The fact that it was with Niels was not easy… Already, just kissing someone for a movie is something so intimate. The simulation of coitus, again, but kissing… For this scene with Niels, I still had to booze slightly before!“, she thus made it known.
The 34-year-old actor agreed to confide in this love at first sight in I love you etc., hosted by Daphné Bürki on France 2. Naturally shy, he revealed that he struggled to show his interest in his crush. “There’s so much going on inside. And there’s a disconnect with what’s really going onhe confessed. I was convinced that we were going to have a story and at the same time, as soon as I was next to her, there was panic.“
The two companions do not hesitate to support each other publicly, by attending their respective premieres, or by walking on prestigious red carpets alongside each other. And this year again, in Cannes, they could once again attract all eyes.