Between Jeanne Heri’s social film and Letitia Masson’s another social film about global warming, her choices resonate with the world. Meeting with a sensitive actress.
Showcasing such dramas as comedies or genre films, Elodie Bushes can be considered an “unclassifiable actress”. But this multitude of registrations above all shows that she is a talented actress who can take on any role. This year he finds Jeanne Heri (Pupil) For I will always see your faces a social film about restorative justice that offers victims a dialogue with the perpetrators of aggression. Elodie Bouchez plays a volunteer responsible for arranging a meeting between a rape victim (Adele Exarchopoulos) and her assailant (Raphael Quenard). In parallel, the actress is showing Letitia Masson’s new film: winter in summer where the climate crisis turns the lives of a gallery of characters upside down.
In the video, I will always see your faces By Jeanne Heri, with Leila Bekhti, Adele Exarchopoulos, Elodie Bouches, trailer
Miss Figaro. – Which film family do you feel closest to?
Elodie Bushes. – I don’t really know anymore… I think I belong to the family of cinema that I like as an audience. So it’s quite wide because I can shoot for Eric and Ramsay and then Quentin Dupierre, Jeanne Heri or Olivier Dahan.
How do you feel about Jeanne Hare?
He impresses me a lot. She is brave and, like delicate people like her, one might think that intellect prevails over affect, but Jeanne is very sensitive. He wanted his film, which shows the importance of reconnecting and re-injecting humanity into our lives, to be shown in theaters quickly to respond to the world we live in.
On one set, Zhanna really accompanies the actors, because every breath, every comma and every word is important to her.
Elodie Bushes
Which director of actors is he?
He never gives up. On one set, Zhanna really accompanies the actors, because every breath, every comma and every word is important to her. Until he has what he has in mind, he doesn’t give up.
Which teammate is Adele Exarchopoulos?
Adele and I have something in common, shooting for Abdellatif Kechiche. Not talking about “school”, let me say that we know that there is a more or less accessible part of the game, which we have reached with him. On the set, we act like good students, that is, we don’t question the director’s requests and put all our energy into following the instructions given.
Adele Exarchopoulos and Elodie Bouchez I will always see your faces By Jeanne Heary. Photo by Christophe Brachet
Like your character, can you volunteer in restorative justice?
No, I don’t think so, because as an actress, I’ve already found it hard not to bring roundness to these characters with great pain. Jeanne Herry often corrected me so that my sympathy did not turn into emotion. These volunteers must be strong enough to accompany the victims as well as the aggressors.
Are you playing too? winter in summer By Letitia Masson. What is your connection with this director?
Letitia and I went into business at the same time. For about ten years we have been working together on various projects, trying things, moving forward, like in a laboratory.
What attracted you? Winter in summer?
I enjoyed this ballet of lost souls with climate concern in the background (polar cold takes place on a summer’s day, editor’s note). Entrusting me with the role of a singer, Letitia pushed me to surpass myself, because I don’t like singing at all. Ultimately, I agreed to be in this film to answer Cedric Kahn, because he is a director I have known for a long time and an actor I think is tremendous.
How eco-friendly are you in life?
Even if I try to fight waste, consume locally and in season, or travel by plane less often, I can’t claim to be a certified environmentalist. On the other hand, I can count on my 21-year-old son to turn off the water as soon as the faucet is turned on.
Vanessa Springora’s interpretation was a bit dizzying because I wanted to live up to this woman, her word, her path…
Elodie Bushes
What are your next projects?
In film, I had the opportunity to play Vanessa Springora in an adaptation of her book consent, directed by Vanessa Filho. I play as her when she clicked with writer Gabriel Matzneff to write her own version of her romance when she was 14 years old. It was my first time playing a modern character and the exercise was a bit dizzying because I wanted to live up to this woman, her words, her ways. I admire her strength and I enjoyed meeting her for the purposes of the film. At the end of the show he left me a message to say he was very happy with the result…
The public will also find you in two other films…
Yes, in Hawaii Islands, a sunny comedy by Melissa Dryger, with Manu Payet, Berenice Bejo, Nicolas Duvachel… And Waiting for the night Celine Rouse’s film about vampires.
With all these movie roles, do you miss the theater?
Yes, often. After shooting one or two films, I can’t wait to return to the stage, my colleagues, directors. Not going to theater school, I had a very lonely career as a young actress. I made films quite quickly while dreaming of more public theater. I finally got a chance to taste it thirteen years ago and hope to do more after that.
Do you feel freer than when you started?
I don’t feel like I’m having more fun or taking more risks than when I started because cinema is a story of encounters and precarious work. As for my roles, I feel like I ventured very young, so I’ve been taking risks since my debut.
I will always see your faces By Jeanne Hery with Elodie Bouches, Gilles Lelouch, Adele Exarchopoulos, Leila Bekhti… Released March 29.winter in summer By Letitia Masson, with Elodie Bouchez, Cédric Kahn, Benjamin Biola… Released this summer.
Source: Le Figaro
