Lucie Lucas is above all a smile. In one expression, it lights up the room like this Pantin warehouse (Seine-Saint-Denis) where it was filming this Thursday, January 9, scenes from the 10th season of “Clem” expected this year on TF 1. It's been ten years since the 33-year-old actress performs this young woman who became a mother at 16, who made her popular. A reputation that it uses to give impact to its commitments, especially that for the protection of the environment. Or recount her painful past on social networks as she did a few weeks ago by revealing that she was the victim of sexual assault when she was a child, adolescent and young woman.
In ten seasons of "Clem", you have grown up with this character. Did you feed each other?
LUCIE LUCAS. Inevitably, there are communicating vessels. I got pregnant for the first time two weeks after the shooting of the first episode where Clem was pregnant. And at one point, she moved to the countryside to do organic farming, a desire that I also had. I don't know how much it influenced my unconscious. There are stages that we almost did together.
It's been a year since you settled in the countryside, in Brittany. Why this choice of life?
We had made this decision a long time ago with my partner and it took us years to find the place that we liked. It is more obvious to raise children in the middle of nature than concrete (Editor's note: she is the mother of two girls aged 9 and 8 and a boy aged 1 and a half). In Paris, I couldn't make a real break between my professional and personal life. There, I have a sanctuary to recharge my batteries where I have access to more independence, self-sufficiency. We would like to make our farmhouse an eco-village with a shop, a bakery, a bar, a care center with alternative medicines and workshops in arboriculture, crafts, etc.
How long have you been committed to protecting the environment?
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Since my adolescence I ask myself a lot of questions. When you become a parent, you ask yourself even more. What do I feed my children? What healthy lifestyle? And what world too? The future they are offered does not suit me. I try to consume less and better. Then, in my card game of life, I have one called Notoriety, it would be a shame not to use it to try to make things happen on a larger scale. I am thus part of the collective of Youtubeurs "We are ready", hyperactive on the subject, and I form another with audiovisual professionals so that the shootings are more respectful of the environment or compensate for their imprint by making call on companies that act on the ground.
You also get involved with migrants ...
It all comes together. With global warming, we will all have to live together in the same place, so let's start to understand each other now. Refugees are uprooted people, who do not have the same culture, the same language ... I am the godmother of AMA (Editor's note: Accueil Migrants Asnières in Asnières-sur-Seine, his hometown) , a neighborhood association which helps refugees to find a roof, a job and create a link to integrate them. I also support Cédric Herrou, a farmer who participated in the reception of thousands of migrants in the Roya valley on the Italian border, and created Emmaüs Roya, an association to enable them to train in agriculture and find accommodation.
Last November, you testified on Instagram about the sexual violence you suffered. Did you get a lot of feedback?
Lots of extremely touching, supportive messages. I did it to show that we can talk about things. When we don't talk about them, they don't exist in people's imaginations. Some people have gone through much worse things than I have. I wanted to say that violence against women has been in my daily life for a long time, that we have great progress to make.
Was Adèle Haenel's testimony the trigger?
I was asked, "Why are you talking about it now? Trauma is digested and can take a lifetime. There, it was the day against violence against women, I could not go to demonstrate and Adèle had spoken. I said to myself: let's try to move forward.
Why do it on Instagram?
I have a very strong relationship with the Clem audience and my community. I like this medium where I can speak to them directly without going through the prism of someone who will report my words. I said what I had to say, people wrote to me, I answered those to whom I could answer. Now I keep moving forward.