Fleur Geffrier. “Apple TV broadcasting Les Gouttes de Dieu worldwide, I’ve taken it one step further, haven’t I?”

Carefree and laughing behind her auburn bob, which frames a hawthorn-colored face and wide Siamese cat eyes, Fleur Geffrier inevitably recalls the face of Emma Stone, era; Crazy, Stupid, Love. Unless he mentions Julianne Moore’s false sincerity Short cuts or Jessica Chastain’s mineral cool Ava:.

This timeless, accessible beauty allows actress Fleur Geffrier to play with a whole range of emotions. He takes off the hood of his hat, slowly removes his LA cap, sits between a photo of Arletti and Louis Jouvet, and enjoys a bit of black while listening to Miles Davis’ sad lament in the bar of the Hôtel du North. immortalized by Marcel Carnet and his film of the same name.

Was it by chance or by design? “That’s probably my unconscious talking. Since I discovered at the age of 10, while reciting Paguol’s text at school, that you can become someone else by acting, I wanted to be an actress with passion. It was a fantasy then. » A fantasy fueled by his parents’ cinephile. “At home, we watched a lot of movies as a family. My dad loved Star Wars. Indiana Jones, Jurassic Parkas well as Jellyfish Or The Gunslingers. My mom introduced me to Monty Python and I had a weakness for it day of celebration By Jacques Tati, whom I kept watching in my room in Rabastens, the little village of Tarn where we lived.

Theater hunger

His father is a chef for private clients, including the Countess of Ribs, whom he follows everywhere on his travels. “It made me dream of getting postcards from New York, Gstaad or Houston.” In Rabastens, Fleur Geffrier is a little bored. “The endless countryside and the sky were wonderful, but in the long run this immensity became a little unsettling. I wanted the city, the theater, the cinema, the entertainment…” After his undergraduate degree, he went to Nice to study art history for three years, then spent a year in Lyon, where he tried his hand at directing at L’Etoile. royale, a small theater with fifteen seats, while working at McDonald’s to pay his rent. “I wanted some. I was 22 years old, and I told myself that we have to get down to business.”

Direction Paris. First, the Conservatoire of Vitry-sur-Seine, “where the students were hungry for the theater.” Meanwhile, he prepared to enter the Cours Florent, where he was received after presenting a monologue; Deadly summer. “At that time I was 25 years old. they accepted me. I felt validated by the institution. I finally felt legit. I was told yes.” The course is demanding. “Learn texts, think about stage design, costumes, lighting. Our teacher Jean-Pierre Garnier asked us to come with proposals for the play. When I presented the famous Hamlet soliloquyTo be or not to bei started singing sad a Happy birthday before putting my head in the cake while lighting the candles. It was my way of telling Hamlet’s tragic relationship with time. We were not afraid of anything. We dared everything. We were asked to be brave and not to doubt.”

This is how she prepares a shell for herself to face what she calls her entry into real life: looking for castings, preparing for them, taking them, waiting for a response, thinking about rejection. “It can be overwhelming. You have to learn not to question yourself, to let go, to take the exercise calmly.” He started with TV serials before landing his first lead role in a movie My angel, By Harry Cliven, then in I’m Carl By Christian Shvokhov, who describes the rise of extremism among European youth. And then one day, bingo, he gets the script for the series drops of god A co-production of Apple TV+, Hulu Japan and France Télévisions. “I felt it as a miracle. The more I read the script, the more I told myself that the role of Camille is for me. I was filming in Bayonne at the time, and my friend at the time had me rehearse my scenes over the phone. I can never thank him enough.”

Franco-Japanese duo

The first contact with director Oded Raskin was via Zoom. Two days later, he asked her to come to Paris for another interview, and the next day called her to tell her she had the role. Drops of God is a very loosely adapted series from the 44 volume manga. Fleur Geffrier plays the daughter of a French oenologist with Japanese star actor Tomohisa Yamashita. “Because I’m unknown to the public and he’s a Japanese superstar, this duo averaged well,” he comments. The role earned her a nomination for the Éclats Award, which honors the discoveries of the year at the Séries Mania festival.

At Cours Florent I was afraid of nothing, I dared everything

Fleur Geffrier

In the coming months, Fleur Geffrier will continue to apply her talent to the series and establish herself as one of the important faces. He is expected Terrorist spies (coming soon to M6), a series with Rachida Brackney and Vincent Elbaz, which returns to the hunt for the sponsors of the November 13, 2015 attacks. He has just completed the physical shooting of the series. Shores, directed by David Houreg (for France 2), in which he plays an oceanographer. “I had to get my diving experience and boat license. We were constantly in the water. It was exhausting but exciting.” When she’s not filming, Fleur Geffrier takes up climbing and yoga and celebrates these empty moments that leave her open to the world and free to think about continuing her career, which she would like to be international. “With Apple TV streaming worldwide Drops of GodI have taken a step forward, haven’t I?