She quickly became one of the essential figures of French-speaking cinema. And this end of the year 2021 will not happen without it. On December 22, 2021, Virginie Efira will star in the film Madeleine Collins, by Antoine Barraud, and she also took part in the adventure Other people’s children, by Rebecca Zlotowski. But this is another project that she came to present in France, at the Pathé Opéra cinema in Paris.
On December 16, 2021, the companion of Niels Schneider was effectively surrounded by the team of the feature film Waiting for Bojangles, in the second arrondissement of our capital. Régis Roinsard, the director, had made the trip, as did Solan Machado-Graner, Clare Manchon and Olivier Manchon, the composers involved in the film and Guillaume Schiffman, the director of photography. Also invited were Olivier Bourdeaut, who wrote the book from which this cinematographic work is taken, as well as Catherine Frot, Jean-Charles de Castelbajac and his 36-year-old wife Pauline de Drouas – whom he married civilly in 2019 and religiously in 2021.
I was convinced to be elephantine
Virginie Efira is about to make people laugh and cry. In Waiting for Bojangles, which will be released in France on January 5, 2021, it represents bipolar disorder – as Damien Bonnard and Leïla Bekhti recently did in The Unquiet – in an unusual family fresco. A fanciful and danced work that gave its main actress a lot of trouble. “I was convinced to be elephantine, sluggish, when an extra came to tell me that she found me graceful on the set, confesses Ali’s mother in the columns of the magazine Madame Figaro. I honestly thought she was laughing at me, but in the end, even though I’m not Ginger Rogers, it’s okay. Like what, the perception that one has of oneself can be something complicated.“See you in dark rooms, in a few days, to get an opinion …
Find the interview with Virginie Efira in the Madame Figaro magazine of December 17, 2021.