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Sitting on a cafe patio, Sarah Giraudeau beams. The actress comes to promote her two new releases. blank page by Muriel Magellan, adapted from the comics by Penelope Baguier and Boulet, and sixth child signed by Léopold Legrand. In the first film selected at the Angoulême Film Festival, she plays Heloise, a Parisian woman who, having amnesia, investigates her life. In the second, she plays Anna, a lawyer whose desire for a child will push her to the unthinkable. Two strong heroine roles that finally put Sara Giraudeau, daughter of Bernard Giraudeau and Annie Duprey, in her own groove.

In the video, Blank pagethe teaser

Miss Figaro. – Did you know Penelope Baguier before you played there? Blank page?
Sarah Giraudeau. – Not at all, and it allowed me to see how this movie was a true adaptation. In the film, we find the essence of Penélope Baguier’s comedy, with its melancholy, its sunny side and its humor, but Muriel has sharpened the story. He used the character’s amnesia as an excuse to address an existential issue: our place in society. My character thought he was going to be a good person, and he realizes he’s lost himself. This is a topic that may seem light, but ultimately turns out to be very deep.

Would you like to lose your memory like your character?
No, because unlike my character, I don’t think I’m lost. I even have the impression that I have built pillars of life that I don’t want to destroy.

Have you taken the time to get to know each other?
Let’s say that I got the impression of living beings upside down. As a child, I knew who I was and I knew I was a misfit at school. I had to wait until the end of school to find myself. The private institution I was in did not suit me at all, and my parents did not notice my anxiety well. When I was 16, a psychologist diagnosed me with school phobia (there are many forms of it), and changing schools made me feel better. These years were such a trauma for me that today I am very attentive to the welfare of my children at school.

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You play great heroines on screen, which feminist are you in real life?
Feminism is in me and I always want to defend it, but in the right way. I think we need to raise the reflection and that the masculine cannot be opposed to the feminine. I’m obviously angry, but I’m also fascinated by some of the developments on this thread. I tell myself that we are coming after centuries of history and that we cannot blow everything up in a few years.

Feminism is in me and I constantly want to stand up for it, but in the right way

Sarah Giraudeau

What made you agree to play? The sixth child ?
Being a supportive mother. I am a mother before being an actress. the story of this lawyer who is ready for anything to have a baby touched me. I understand these women for whom motherhood is an inner need and whose pain can border on madness. And Léopold Legrand wrote this story in the form of a thriller, a genre I appreciate because it allows for heightened emotions.

What are your future plans?
I played with Claude Chirac Bernadette, Along with Catherine Deneuve and Michel Villermoz, and I’m going to make a series about the collateral damage of a child’s illness on a family, with Virginia Efira, Alyosha Schneider, Nicole Garcia and Bernard Le Coq.

blank page By Muriel Magellan, with Sarah Giraudeau, Pierre Deladonchamp, Grégoire Ludig, Sarah Soucco… Released on August 31.

sixth child By Léopold Legrand, with Sarah Giraudeau, Benjamin Laverne, Judith Kemla, Damien Bonnard… Released on September 28.