The actress, who grew up in Martinique, bears “a little brother”, the second feature film by Léonor Séraille, and chains the leading roles.
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“It’s me who says:” You are cute. “Or not!” She said it with this telluric energy that characterizes it. Ten years ago, when Annabelle Lengronne came to Cannes, for the Kaïra, by Franck Gastambide, it was his only line of text. “A small, but funny role, of a rapper who flirts with a guy in a concert,” she laughs. Today, at 34, heroine of Léonor Serraille’s new film, a little brother, in official competition in Cannes, the young woman made a name for herself by aligning the leading roles in the cinema as on television (the Cuisine series internal, to come this fall out of 13 th street).
His life is a melting pot. A Senegalese biological mother who disembarks in Paris, three months pregnant and give birth under X. A couple of French – she is Auvergne, he is Pyrenean – who adopt it and settle in Fort -de -France, in Martinique, where They open a funeral company (“My father made the Caveau d’Amé Césaire”), and a cupboards. The evocation of this concordance causes her graceful grin to her. Finally, she has a little brother, Arthur, three years younger her youngest, also adopted, who works on the port of Le Havre (Seine-Maritime). United and loving family. “It is through the gaze of others that I knew that I was adopted,” she regrets.
“an indefinable beauty”
And, because her skin is very dark, she will undergo the harassment of other children. “There was a problem of colorism at the time. They said to me” you are black “, while they were all black … Result: arrival in high school, I was Gothic, I listened to metal, Marilyn Manson , I had spikes everywhere around the neck and wrists so that no one approached me. I wanted to be afraid of myself. “
The theater will act as an outlet. On the set, she discovers, we can be what we want … “And we learn to discover ourselves.” A theater bac in her pocket, she crosses with her father the 8,000 kilometers that separate her from Paris to look for a theater school in mainland France. His teacher addressed her to Laëtitia Guédon, a young director whose father is Martinican. She who today directs the wild sets, in Paris, remembers the moment: “We had an appointment in a cafe. I remember this appearance, with indefinable beauty, ageless … a star.”
Sur ses conseils, Annabelle Lengronne tente le cours Claude Mathieu, qu’elle réussit. Trois ans plus tard, à la sortie, Laëtitia Guédon lui offre le rôle de Bintou, dans la tragédie de Koffi Kwahulé. Nous sommes en 2009. La pièce, jouée à Avignon, est remarquée. Un agent la contacte et l’histoire est en marche. Depuis, on l’a vue dans Mercuriales (2014), de Virgil Vernier, La Fine Equipe (2016), de Magaly Richard-Serrano, Filles de joie (2020), en trio avec Noémie Lvovsky et Sara Forestier…
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