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“I wanted to be white.” these words from Oumi, daughter of racism victim Louis Garrel and Valeria Bruni Tedeschi;

Oumi Bruni Garel on the set of the show “C à vous”. (France, January 26, 2023) YouTube screenshot

Invited to the set of C à vous to promote the film Neneh Superstar15-year-old Oumi Bruni Garel spoke about the racism she experienced as a child.

Oumi Bruni Garel made herself known through the character she plays Neneh Superstar. Released in theaters on January 25, the film, directed by Ramzi Ben Slimane, tells the story of a 12-year-old girl who redoubles her efforts to get into the Paris Opera Ballet School. Due to her skin color, the dancer stands out among the other students. The adopted daughter of Louis Garrel and Valeria Bruni, who is originally from Senegal, thus drew a parallel with her own story. one who also dances and who faced racism throughout her childhood.

In the video: the trailer Neneh SuperstarOumi Bruni with Garel

“It was scary, but true”

“I had the impression that it was me,” he explained to Anne-Elizabeth Lemoine and Patrick Cohen on the set of C à vous on Thursday, January 26. Of course we have many differences, but at the same time we are very similar because we both dance and have problems because of the color of our skin. And continue. “It’s scary to say that we have problems because of the color of our skin … but we do. For example, in my dance school, I am the only black person. Like in the movie.

Oumi Bruni Garel particularly explained how difficult it was for her to discuss her adoption with her classmates, being more confronted with her difference. “I already come from a family where both my parents are white, so I get a lot of questions like, ‘But why are you black?’, ‘They’re not your real parents.’ So yes, I felt it and said to myself. “I want to be white” or “Why am I black?” he confided.

Father to daughter

Louis Garrel and Valeria Bruni-Tedeschi, 19 years apart, were in a relationship from 2007 to 2012. In 2009, they adopted Oum in Senegal when he was just 4 months old. If Carla Bruni’s niece signs Neneh Superstar her first lead role, she made her big screen debut in 2019 Summer visitors, directed by her mother. Two years later, it was in front of his father’s camera that he stood out The Crusadenext to his mother-in-law Laetitia Casta.

During the promotion of the film, Louis Garrel made some confidences about his daughter. An activist, the latter played a “bad-looking” little girl in the police department in a feature film. “She happens to be a little girl whom I know very well. That’s my daughter Oumi. And we did the movie live so I let him improvise in that scene. In fact, he wrote it,” he said. So the budding actress knew how to blend into the role, already proving her talent as an actress.

Video interview with Entre-Deux, Louis Garrel and Roschdy Zem

Source: Le Figaro

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