Sitting on a café terrace, Sara Giraudeau radiates.
The actress comes to promote her two current events:
The White Page,
by Murielle Magellan, adapted from the comic strip by Pénélope Bagieu and Boulet, and
The Sixth Child,
by Léopold Legrand.
In the first film, selected at the Angoulême Film Festival, she plays Héloïse, a Parisian who, having amnesia, investigates her own life.
In the second, she plays Anna, a lawyer whose desire for a child will push her to the unthinkable.
Two strong heroine roles that definitively put Sara Giraudeau, daughter of Bernard Giraudeau and Anny Duperey, in her own groove.
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On video,
The White Page
, the trailer
Miss Figaro.
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Did you know Pénélope Bagieu before playing in
La Page blanche
?
Sarah Giraudeau.
- Not at all, and it allowed me to see how this film was a real adaptation.
We find in the film the essence of Pénélope Bagieu's comic strip, with its melancholy, its solar side and its humor, but Murielle has intensified the story.
She made the character's amnesia a pretext to address an existential problem, that of our place in society.
My character thought she was going to be a good person, and realizes that she has lost herself.
This is a subject that may seem light, but which ultimately turns out to be very deep.
Would you have liked to lose your memory like your character?
No, because unlike my character, I don't think I got lost.
I even have the impression of having built pillars of life that I don't want to destroy.
Did you take time to get to know each other?
Let's say that I had the impression of living things upside down.
As a child, I knew who I was, and I was aware that I was unsuited to school.
I had to wait until the end of my schooling to find myself.
The private establishment in which I was did not suit me at all, and my parents had not observed my discomfort well.
When I was 16, a psychologist diagnosed me with school phobia (there are different forms of it), and changing schools made me feel better.
These years were such a trauma for me that today I am very attentive to the well-being of my children at school.
Full screen
Sara Giraudeau in
The White Page.
Press department
You play great heroines on the screen, which feminist are you in life?
Feminism is in me, and I constantly want to defend it, but in the right way.
I think we have to elevate the reflection, and that the masculine cannot oppose the feminine.
I obviously feel anger, but I also admire some developments on this subject.
I tell myself that we are coming after centuries of history, and that we can't explode everything in a few years.
Feminism is in me, and I constantly want to defend it, but in the right way
Sara Giraudeau
What made you agree to play in
The Sixth Child
?
Being an inveterate mother – I am a mother before being an actress – the story of this lawyer ready to do anything to have a child touched me.
I understand these women for whom motherhood is a visceral need, and whose pain can border on madness.
And Léopold Legrand wrote this story in the form of a thriller, a genre that I appreciate because it allows you to intensify the emotions.
What are your future projects?
I played Claude Chirac in
Bernadette,
alongside Catherine Deneuve and Michel Vuillermoz, and I'm about to shoot a series on the collateral damage caused by a child's illness on a family, with Virginie Efira, Aliocha Schneider , Nicole Garcia and Bernard LeCoq.
The White Page,
by Murielle Magellan, with Sara Giraudeau, Pierre Deladonchamps, Grégoire Ludig, Sarah Suco… Released on August 31.
The Sixth Child,
by Léopold Legrand, with Sara Giraudeau, Benjamin Lavernhe, Judith Chemla, Damien Bonnard… Released on September 28.
