For us, the heroine of the second season of "Validated" has agreed to confide at length, in all honesty about what she really is.
"It's a first, I've never told my story," she blurted out, bluntly.
If no one really knows her yet, her face was displayed in XXL on the Paris ring road and all over France on buses, during the series' huge advertising campaign.
For these nine new episodes, the director Franck Gastambide immediately wanted to mark the spirits by changing heroes and by focusing on a young artist, Lalpha, played by Laetitia Kerfa, who bursts the screen.
She plays there the mother of a little boy, a saleswoman in a sneaker shop in the Halles district of Paris, who must overcome the difficulties of the rap world to establish herself in a very masculine industry. If fans of the series discover it this fall, Franck Gastambide spots it in the theater, even before the release of season 1. “When the first season was put online, I subscribed to Canal + to watch it out of respect. for Franck whereas financially this has a cost ”, she testifies. A few weeks before, the director of “Pattaya” had been alerted to Laetitia Kerfa, who played “Du Sale”, a creation by Marion Siéfert at the national drama center in Aubervilliers (Seine-Saint-Denis).
“I had been warned that he was likely to pass for one of his current projects but I did not believe it,” she recalls.
And then, one evening during the performance, I saw a shaved head.
In my head, I said to myself,
maybe it's him
and I refocused on my text.
"It was indeed the director of" Taxi 5 "who had flashed on the magnetism of this singer-actress who made herself the leather in the rap," old-fashioned "by participating in" open-mic "
( rap competition)
in Paris where she grew up.
One million views for her music video in less than a week
This strength of character liked in this exercise without a net “the challenge of going on stage to convince”. In this outlet, the brunette with the frank gaze recounted "her troubles". Daughter of a mother of Algerian origin who "saved her life by doing tons of jobs", and a Guadeloupe dad, the young Laetitia grew up in a working-class environment in the north of Paris.
In the ears, the committed rap of the generation of his parents, that of the heyday of IAM and NTM. She forges a musical ear, but also finds a refuge there, especially during her stay in a home when her mother falls ill. In high school, passion takes more and more place. And the theater is added. “It was not a choice to make an artistic career, it was imposed on me. She won't get the college diploma, but this loner takes rap very seriously, continues to write. Tirelessly.
Animator for a time, nothing moves her more than the return of the former young people she took care of. "They write to me:
do you remember me? I was in the theater workshop that you run from 4 pm to 5 pm?
It makes me so happy to read this! Nothing makes me more proud than to show them that you can achieve something even if you come from a popular background. And they will be able to continue to observe it.
The video for her debut single "Rider All Night" has recorded over a million views in less than a week and runs several times a day on Skyrock radio.
Like this hit, her future is more than promising: a feature film project in the cinema on which she wants to remain discreet, an album "at the end of the year or early 2022" almost already finished, a Cicada already scheduled for the 2 June 2022… To be watched very closely.
