We can officially say that everything Virginie Efira touches turns to gold. After a career as an animator on the small screen in Belgium and then in France, the most French of Belgians broke into the cinema. In romantic comedies first before starting a dramatic turn of the most successful, which now earned him the ability to shoot for the greatest like Paul Verhoeven, Albert Dupontel or Rebecca Zlotowski. The latter called on Virginie Efira to perform in Other people’s children the role of Rachel, a very attached stepmother to her 4-year-old stepdaughter. A place that the 45-year-old actress has already known in the past before becoming the mother of a girl herself.
From the story between director Mabrouk El Mechri and Virginie Efira was born Ali. Her 9-year-old daughter, the actress wants to protect her as much as possible. So you won’t see Ali hand in hand with his mom on a red carpet. On the other hand, if they are rare, confidences are not non-existent. The proof with his passage on the show As an aside this Tuesday, September 27 on Canal+.
While Nathalie Lévy confided that Roschdy Zem, her partner in Other people’s children, had been touched to see Ali doing his homework in his dressing room, Virginie Efira agreed to say more. In particular on the relationship of his daughter with the celebrity of his mother. And surprisingly, Ali has his head firmly on his shoulders despite his young age: “She is at a distance that I find fair enough. […] I ask her sometimes, but I hope it doesn’t piss her off, that we don’t piss her off with it. I find her healthy“, explained Virginie Efira.
The engaging side of her acting profession, the companion of Niels Schneider is trying to make it forget by the existing breaks in her schedule, which she devotes to Ali: “There are air pockets in a day. I like to desacralize the moment of filming, everything that can go outside to dive back afterwards, interests me, and therefore primarily her.” Important mother-daughter moments that make Virginie Efira a woman at the height.