In his voice, which we hear on the telephone, one word often comes up: “intense”.
Lætitia Casta is in Lille, and this is how she qualifies the shooting of
Le Bonheur est pour matin
, Brigitte Sy's next film, inspired by a true story: that of a woman who fell in love with a man before that he does not commit a robbery, which she will support to the point of excess.
At his side, Damien Bonnard and Béatrice Dalle.
This is the first time the two actresses have met.
On Instagram, the heroine of
37°2 in the morning
and
Trouble Every Day
left a message to Lætitia Casta: “You are an angel.”
The interested party confides to us that she “adores” her: “We are two natures, we made ourselves a little on our own.
She is real, Beatrice.
A diamond that has not been cut.
Everything is on the sensitive chord.
And I find it very beautiful.
Me, I like everything that overflows, goes out of the frame.
Because it's not academic, because it's sincere.
On this shoot, I do not have the impression of acting, I have the impression of being in a family.
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An elective family from which she moved away during our photo shoot, in Corsica, the country she loves and where she partly grew up, the country where a photographer discovered her when she was 15, and where , in 2017, Louis Garrel became her husband.
In short, a place in the form of a lifeline, to the point that we often forget that she was born in Normandy.
“When I arrived on the shoot, I was still in the film.
Being in contact with nature, the sea, the sand and the wind has done me good.
Diving in very cold water, it is as if it had washed me.
In video,
The Crusade
, the trailer
Water: its natural element.
Lætitia Casta flaunts the colors with the marinière from the eco-responsible Free The Sea collection by IKKS, of which she is the muse.
An emblematic piece perfect to seduce according to her.
“You can't be wrong.
It's both a classic with which you can invent anything, but it also evokes freshness: everyone is cute in a marinière."
Water, the element that irrigates her acting career in an unconscious way, from her first steps in the theater in
Ondine
in 2004 to
Une île
(2019), a series in which she played a vengeful mermaid, or
La Croisade
(2021), by and with Louis Garrel, in which their (fictitious) son Joseph with other children formed the crazy project of making a sea emerge in the middle of the desert.
A film in which his longstanding commitment to the defense of the oceans and nature is embodied.
And which perhaps better than any other reflects the flow in which she constantly evolves: a rich and incessant coming and going between fiction and the real world, which she fully inhabits.
Me, I like everything that overflows, goes out of the frame
Laetitia Casta
Lætitia Casta is the one we meet in photos and on the catwalks for almost thirty years.
An icon in the literal sense of the term, sometimes a fantasy, constantly reinvented by the many looks placed on her: femme fatale in the video for
Baby Did a Bad Bad Thing,
by Chris Isaak, in 1997, Botticelli bride, only dressed in flowers during the Yves Saint Laurent parade in 1999, or Marianne of the year 2000, exhibited in all the town halls of France.
So many "roles" that may have prefigured those she has been doing for twenty years on stage and on screen.
Even if her job as an actress, paradoxically, brings her closer and closer to reality and to women who have indeed existed.
Characters who each time say something about an era, and the way they went through it.
Lætitia Casta was Brigitte Bardot in
Gainsbourg (heroic life),
by Joann Sfar (2010), Arletty in a biographical television film on the life of the artist, broadcast in 2015. This year, she was applauded at the theater in
Clara Haskil , prelude and fugue
, a monologue retracing the incredible life of this Romanian pianist of genius, born in Bucharest and survivor of the Nazi regime, acclaimed in the greatest halls of the whole world before her tragic death in 1960. A character propelled very young into the world of adults, through which Lætitia Casta recognized a part of her own adolescence: "Coming across the path of this woman who left her family at 14, it's as if we had told part of our two stories" , she says today.
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She will resume the play on tour at the start of the school year, then again at the Théâtre du Rond-Point, in Paris, in March 2023. Next year, she will also be the mother of Vanessa Springora in the adaptation of the latter's powerful novel. ,
Consent
, by director Vanessa Filho.
A troubled character, blinded by the excesses of another time and by the aura of fame, who was unable to prevent his own daughter from being consumed, from the age of 13, by an affair with a fifty-year-old writer in hit.
The role, which is complex, interests her because it is “nuanced”: it is “to seek light in something dark”, she explains.
Living in the world and always finding light in it: this is one of Lætitia Casta's instinctive mantras, optimistic by nature, without which, she acknowledges, "I would never have been able to build all this in my life".
Mother of four children, she confides that the chaos of the news, her anxiety-provoking horizons and the doubts that hover over a planet in disarray do not paralyze her: “The future, like the past, does not interest me.
I am in the present.
Life is intense, sometimes hard.
It's a reality.
What happens to us is due to power and money.
The world has been operating like this for quite some time.
But you have to humbly try to be aware of how lucky you are.
Remembering where you come from, what you've done, who you are.
And be grateful for it.”
To find herself, Lætitia Casta turns to her blended family (which also includes the daughter of Louis Garrel).
Without sacrificing everything to her role as a mother: “My children are demanding beings, who can send back to me an image that society has instilled in them.
But that's not how it happens.
In this sense, they teach me to say that I am not just a mother, I am a woman.
And it's not something they grant me: it's up to me to assert myself in front of them.
Society remains patriarchal, it is through education that the world can change.
But it will take a long time.”
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Striped bikini top, IKKS Free The Sea.
Serge Leblon
Long, like all the other struggles waged by women and minorities that are said to be "different", so many struggles waged in an increasingly resounding way.
Lætitia Casta has been witness to this for a long time: she remembers her beginnings, when she herself did not fit completely into the standards of the catwalks and when she was delighted to parade at Jean-Paul Gaultier's with models casted in the wild for their unique and never wise look.
I love reinventing things, always moving
Laetitia Casta
Lætitia Casta also fought to escape the stereotypes in which we often wanted to confine her: not to be reduced to her beauty, to a glamorous image of glossy paper, to her career as a supermodel... "From the start, I led a fight to detach myself from the gaze of others.
Very quickly, I had to explain that I was not going to change who I was.
Asserting myself through the work I was doing, and not because I was a woman, and that I had that physique.
A battle won, which today nourishes his reflections on the way in which fashion welcomes new silhouettes and opens up to diversity.
“Yes, it's wonderful to accept everyone as they are.
But people should not be distinguished solely on the basis of their identity,
their color or appearance, to the detriment of their talent and inventiveness.
Reducing them to what they are physically bothers me a lot.”
On the phone, Lætitia Casta debates, wonders, defends her positions.
Congratulates himself on living in an era in which men, women and ideas move at a galvanizing pace, which can cause profound changes: “I love reinventing things, always moving around.
Having an opinion, then suddenly changing your mind, evolving.”
Lætitia Casta likes nothing more than getting out of the frame, freeing herself from conventions.
She has always allowed herself to follow her instincts, with this immense freedom that women are sometimes warned about, lest they get lost in their desires: "Go tell that to Béatrice Dalle!" her in a burst of laughter.
This thirst for the absolute, Lætitia Casta claims it too.
Like a vast ocean current that nothing can stem.
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