Killer in Mon Crime, bearded woman in Rosalie, how Nadia Tereszkiewicz conquered French cinema

It's a light, a will-o'-the-wisp that runs from the stage compartment and brightens up everything in its path.

This April afternoon, Nadia Tereszkiewicz poses in the studio for

.

In front of the images that are displayed on the photographer's return screen, she is the most enthusiastic, bursting into a frank and joyful laugh: "Oh, that's great!"

A singularity, when we know the slight bias in the artists' dissatisfaction with the lens.

But the young woman is the antithesis of jaded.

At 27, the actress for whom everything seems to be smiling – a presence at Cannes for

, by Stéphanie Di Giusto, a César for best hope in 2023 for

, by Valeria Bruni Tedeschi, the success of

, by François Ozon, where she shares the leading role with Rebecca Marder – still does not speak of “career” but of “luck”.

In video,

Mon Crime

by François Ozon, with Isabelle Huppert, the trailer

Solar talent

Not a shadow of pride in her joy, on the contrary, she deploys as she exudes attention and politeness.

She wouldn't mind, moreover, being reduced to this whirlwind of freshness, she who inherited from her mother, a Nordic Pilates teacher, the gift of “making everything positive”.

But Nadia Tereszkiewicz is much more interesting than that.

Her beauty, already, whose features can take you from the ingenuous to the disturbing, creating a disorder a thousand leagues from her true candor.

Then her sensuality, a body that plays on the screen as much as the face.

Her career as a professional dancer, finally, eight hours of dancing a day for fourteen years, from which emerges an ability to face effort and pain... Even if she tries to minimize: "It's true, but it was especially wonderful years!”

free figure

The night before this photo session, Nadia Tereszkiewicz learned of the selection at Cannes, in Un certain regard, of the film

.

She plays the leading role there, that of a “woman with a beard”, as they said at the time – the film is set in 1870 –, endowed with overdeveloped hair, devoured by this secret that she hides in herself. shaving but would like to reveal to her husband.

“It's a love story, sums up the actress, her big blue eyes sparkling with emotion.

Of unconditional love.

How to love, without counting the difference, by freeing oneself from the gaze of others.

We can all identify with that.”

Cashmere sweater, Dior.

Dior beauty treatment with: Dior Forever 1N, Dior Forever Skin Correct 0.5N, Diorshow On Stage Crayon 099 Black, Diorshow Iconic Overcurl 090 Black and Rouge Dior Forever 200 Nude Touch.

Photos Luc Braquet / Realization Julie Gillet

A film-loving family

Cannes is also a love story for the actress, dare we paraphrase.

The city, first: she grew up there from the age of 4 to 18, loving swimming there, as far as possible, "even in winter", and skiing in the nearby mountains.

The Festival, then.

She will celebrate her 27th birthday there on May 24, three days before the winners.

She owes him her first name, or almost.

His parents, moviegoers, chose him as a tribute to the heroine of

, by Nikita Mikhalkov, Grand Jury Prize at the 1994 festival – Nadia is the diminutive of Nadezhda, which means “hope” in Russian.

As a little girl, Nadia Tereszkiewicz climbed the steps in a tutu with the students of her dance school, then with her parents, who had offered her a place for the screening of

, in 2010. She returned there – “discreetly, not invited”, she specifies with a smile – to see the film in which she made her very first appearance, as a ballerina.

This film was called

, and it was by the same Stéphanie Di Giusto.

The loop is almost too beautiful, but the story certainly isn't over.

Cotton blouse, English embroidery bustier and cotton gabardine skirt, the Dior ensemble.

Tiffany HardWear link chain and pendant, in pearl and silver, Tiffany & Co. Photos Luc Braquet / Realization Julie Gillet

Revealed in 2019 by

by Dominik Moll, Nadia Tereszkiewicz has already shown in four years an impressive range of talents.

From the gently marginalized

, by Fabienne Berthaud, to the phantasmagorical tornado of

, by Monia Chokri, from the incandescent ardor of the apprentice actress of

to the pungent malice of that of

.

In

by Damien Ounouri and Adila Bendimerad, released on April 19, she portrays a Scandinavian slave, lover of the pirate Barbarossa, in Algeria in the 16th century.

She speaks Finnish, her mother tongue, and Arabic, the language of the film, worked with a coach.

Later this year will come

, by Robin Campillo, shot in Madagascar just after

.

"Thursday was the end of filming party for Valeria's film, on Friday they cut my hair, presto, I became brunette, it was Robin's film", laughs She.

“But it was good, because I had discovered so many things in a hurry on

, the game was so intense that I had to contain it, it helped me to embody a more mature woman, who internalizes. »

She has a lot of courage, I think it comes from dancing, the absolute requirement

Stephanie DiGiusto

A learning cinema

Nadia Tereszkiewicz refers to her shoots as apprenticeships, from which she draws as much human as professional experience.

For

, you had to become Colette, a mother of three children, inspired by the director's mother, who lived through the last hours of colonialism on a French army base in Madagascar.

Projecting yourself into the 1960s was not necessarily a misuse, "because anyway, I think I'm not very current," she laughs.

She worked on her voice, "to put it more", but speaks above all of the discovery of Madagascar - "this country which is terrible, because so poor, and where the biodiversity is the most beautiful that I have ever seen".

She is also inexhaustible about the filming in Algeria of

.

“I was welcomed into the family of Adila, the director.

I had my daily life with the Algerians, I was invited to a wedding, it was great not to be put aside.

Almond tree

adventure

The Almond Trees

remain a unique parenthesis linked to the “fusional relationship” established with Valeria Bruni Tedeschi, of which she embodies the double on the screen.

“We had created a common language.

For example, she said to me “red backpack”, it refers to an episode told by another character, Etienne, and which moves me deeply.

Before, when I had to cry on set, I thought of my grandmother, of sad events in my life, and it was exhausting.

Valeria taught me to connect to things that upset me but inside the story.

That's what's great, deeply believing in what you're playing, this crazy happiness of being in fiction.

»

, by François Ozon, confronted her with an audience of stars: Isabelle Huppert, André Dussollier, Fabrice Luchini, Dany Boon.

"The first day, Fabrice Luchini said to me: 'I don't understand when you talk'", she bursts out laughing.

“But he said a lot of great things to me afterwards.

He put a pencil in my mouth: “You do all your text like that.”

It helped me a lot.”

The master of eloquence probably did not know that he was addressing the most relentless of hardworking women.

“She works a lot, non-stop, testifies her friend the actress and director Monia Chokri.

She can't tell when she's exhausted."

I didn't say to myself, "I could be an actress", I knew too well the difficulty of entering an artistic profession

Nadia Tereszkiewicz

Demanding roles

Become

, the bearded woman, involved waking up at 4 a.m., for makeup.

"We glued each hair one by one, all over the body," says director Stéphanie Di Giusto.

As soon as Nadia arrived at the casting, the filmmaker understood that she would be his Rosalie.

“I was doing the trials with a beard.

The other actresses looked at themselves a thousand times in the mirror, were embarrassed, scratched.

Nadia didn't even check her image in the mirror.

She sat down straight away and she played."

Benoît Magimel interprets her husband, but, during the filming, apart from takes, he does not speak to him.

The two actors rehearse separately, avoid each other in the dressing rooms… “It was my request, explains Stéphanie Di Giusto.

They only see each other in the scenes.

A challenge for Nadia,

added to that of spending his day on the set covered in hair under the gaze of others.

She has a lot of courage, I think it comes from dancing, the absolute requirement.

In dance too, there is this permanent judgment on the body.

You have to meet a standard.

However, Nadia is not standard.

In this, no doubt, the character must have spoken to him.

“Solar” is the word that Monia Chokri and Stéphanie Di Giusto use without consulting each other about the actress.

“Extremely funny, full of tenderness and not necessarily naive, very intelligent”, completes the first.

“She's not smooth, but she's pure.

Still free, not in patterns, ”adds the second.

absolute requirement.

In dance too, there is this permanent judgment on the body.

You have to meet a standard.

However, Nadia is not standard.

In this, no doubt, the character must have spoken to him.

“Solar” is the word that Monia Chokri and Stéphanie Di Giusto use without consulting each other about the actress.

“Extremely funny, full of tenderness and not necessarily naive, very intelligent”, completes the first.

“She's not smooth, but she's pure.

Still free, not in patterns, ”adds the second.

absolute requirement.

In dance too, there is this permanent judgment on the body.

You have to meet a standard.

However, Nadia is not standard.

In this, no doubt, the character must have spoken to him.

“Solar” is the word that Monia Chokri and Stéphanie Di Giusto use without consulting each other about the actress.

“Extremely funny, full of tenderness and not necessarily naive, very intelligent”, completes the first.

“She's not smooth, but she's pure.

Still free, not in patterns, ”adds the second.

actress.

“Extremely funny, full of tenderness and not necessarily naive, very intelligent”, completes the first.

“She's not smooth, but she's pure.

Still free, not in patterns, ”adds the second.

actress.

“Extremely funny, full of tenderness and not necessarily naive, very intelligent”, completes the first.

“She's not smooth, but she's pure.

Still free, not in patterns, ”adds the second.

Cotton shirt, woolen skirt, belt, socks and ankle boots, the Dior set.

Ben Mignot hairstyle.

Dior makeover by Fred Marin.

Fanny Santa Rita manicure.

Photos Luc Braquet / Realization Julie Gillet

The school of rigor

It was "by chance" that Nadia Tereszkiewicz's mother enrolled her at the age of 4 at the Rosella Hightower dance school in Mougins, which offers professional training from the age of 11.

"It was I who wanted to continue, insists Nadia, my parents were very cool, they would never have pushed me, they accompanied me."

As a teenager, she is on campus every day from 7 a.m. to 9 p.m.;

During the holidays, she goes on internships all over France and Europe.

“At 11, I took the bus alone, I went to Stuttgart, to Hamburg, to Italy, even to Boston.

I was very independent, I loved making these trips, meeting people…” At 18, she was admitted to the National Ballet School of Canada, flew to Toronto… and quickly turned around.

She invokes the rate of sacrifice,

The discovery of cinema

In hypokhâgne then khâgne at the Lycée Molière, in Paris, she blossoms, grows fifteen centimeters, takes 15 kilos, dances as an extra on film sets.

The vocation is still unconscious: “I did not say to myself, “I could be an actress”, I knew too well the difficulty of entering an artistic profession.

The encouragement of a theater teacher from the conservatory of the 8th arrondissement, Marc Ernotte, and the actress Claude Mathieu, whom she met on a set, stimulated her.

Nadia Tereszkiewicz seems to arouse in others the impulse of guardian angel, as with director Dennis Berry, who made her shoot his first feature film,

, in 2018, and took her under his wing with his wife, Anna Karina.

“They gave me stacks of DVDs to watch, they believed in me so much I couldn't doubt anymore.”

Read alsoRebecca Marder and Nadia Tereszkiewicz: “The roles always find the actress for whom they are intended”

positive energy

She also has the anchor of her close-knit family – “a Finnish education, she says, invoking the country of origin of her mother, with a form of rigor but positive: to see the good side of things, to do what 'one loves, ideally without stressing too much'.

His father, of Polish origin, is a great cinephile, today responsible for the BetaSeries series analysis platform;

his sister (22) has just passed the bar exam, his brother (16) is a diving fan.

And then there is this important “group of friends”, dancers: “We have known each other for ten years, we see each other every week, we go on vacation together.

For the Caesars, they had made me a fake statuette with my name engraved on it, in case I didn't have it, and were waiting for me with balloons at the bottom of my house.

No wonder Nadia Tereszkiewicz is a light that makes others want to love her.

In Finland, will-o'-the-wisps are said to appear where treasures are hidden.

In video, "I know the pleasure you have in letting yourself be destabilized": the intervieux 'Entre-Deux' by Valeria Bruni Tedeschi and Nadia Tereszkiewicz