The pretty little girl has grown into a beautiful young woman.
Her azure blue gaze fixed on the horizon, her wavy brown mane pulled back, Delfine Rouffignac plunges back into her memories.
“The role of Clara Olivier? It was a pure coincidenceshe smiles. the end of the 90s, a call for casting had been launched throughout the department: the producers of the series Under the sun were looking for a little girl from Var, in my age group. The information had come back to the ears of my parents, who then offered me to participate. I was six years old, I had never done theatre, never heard of the series and I didn’t even know what the word casting meant!
And yet, a few weeks later, the little Dracénoise finds herself waiting, alongside hundreds of other girls, in front of the production premises in Saint-Tropez.
“These moments are quite diffuse in my mindrecognizes Delfine. But I remember going through the audition and being called back for a call back after several weeks. I went back to Saint-Tropez, accompanied by my parents, and I did a scenario with one of the producers.”
“A Rewarding Adventure”
After that, Delfine resumes the course of her life and finds the benches of the school Les Marronniers, in Draguignan.
On her seventh birthday, as she is gathered with family to celebrate the occasion, the phone rings. Delfine does not know it yet but, at the end of the line, his interlocutor is about to tell him some news that will turn his life upside down.
Thinking about it, the young woman’s eyes light up as on the first day.
“The production told me that I had been chosenshe continues. I will never forget the feeling of joy that came over me at that moment.”
Nor the ten years that followed.
“A month after this call, I was starting my first day of filming. I was stressed, I didn’t really understand what was happening to me, but the whole team was great with me”, Delfine recalls. With hindsight, the young Dracénoise analyzes all the benefits derived from this experience.
“the screen everything seems natural, but you can’t imagine all the work and the investment that goes into itshe continues. This adventure has enriched me a lot and has been very formative in that regard.” Humanly speaking, Delfine remembers these encounters, which have become beautiful friendships, but also these conversations, these giggles and this famous memory lapse, the one and only she has ever had, on the last day of filming the spin-off of the series, in 2012.
Even if “not everything was rosy either” for this little girl who, from the first years of her life, found herself propelled into an adult world.
“There were panic attacks”
“At school, my parents had chosen not to say anything. But when the episodes were broadcast, my classmates turned their backs on me. I didn’t understand. They suddenly called me pretentious, show-off, sending me back a image that did not correspond to reality. There were many anxiety attacksconcedes Delfine. But that’s all behind me now.” And the good memories will always take precedence over the rest.
Back in her hometown, aged 30, Delfine Rouffignac is fully blossoming in her life as a woman, far from the cameras. But the young Dracénoise does not forget these years that made her what she is today. And if we had to do it again? Delfine would reproduce the same scenario, “mostshe confides with a smile, while still being better prepared!”
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“Comedy is first of all to convey messages”
Besides the series Under the sunDelfine Rouffignac played roles on the small screen in the early 2000s. In 2001, the girl, then ten years old, played opposite Florent Pagny and François Cluzet in the film When I see the sun. The young actress also obtains recurring roles in the series Alice Nevers, the judge is a womanin 2009, More beautiful lifein 2012, R.I.S Police scientifique the same year, and reboot from Under the sun the next year. Then, after a baccalaureate with a theater option, obtained at the Jean-Moulin high school, Delfine tried the Parisian adventure.
“I loved this environmentconfides Delfine, I wanted to continue to explore it, so I adapted my literature course at the Sorbonne to be able to take full-time theater training. During my third year, I trained in audiovisual production and cinema. And I became a production assistant at 21, which allowed me to really understand behind the scenes.”
At 25, not out of frustration but out of a desire to “find a healthier lifestyle”, Delfine decides to find his family, in Draguignan. And to realize a passion that had animated him since he was 17: yoga. Trained in Bali a year ago, the young woman is perfectly balanced in her new way of life and teaches every day at Arts Studio & co, in Draguignan.
But she still keeps a thought for her first passion and hopes to offer theater lessons in the months to come.
“Comedy, whether it’s on TV, in the cinema or on the stage of a theatre, is first of all to pass on messages, to transmit an emotion. For me, actors have always had this role to play. Even more so in this period, where the atmosphere is heavy and society is losing its bearings.
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