The former actress turned screenwriter testified on Friday on Faustine Bollaert’s show about how she handled her sudden notoriety when she was only 13 and a half years old.
“Teen stars: how to manage fame” was the theme of “It starts today” on Friday. The opportunity to have Lou Jean from “The Voice Kids” testify, but also Sheila O’Connor from The party. It was she who, more than forty years ago, played Penelope, Vic’s best friend, played by the unforgettable Sophie Marceau. Curly red hair and always mischievous, the actress has hardly changed. “I’m lucky, I have a good nature“, assured the now screenwriter to Faustine Bollaert.
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If this ex-teen star has good memories of the filming of Claude Pinoteau’s film – at the time, she was only thirteen and a half years old – the aftermath, it seems, was more difficult. The feature film has notably earned him death threats. “In the mailboxes, we received threatening letters with skulls, written in blood. It was the ex-social networks“, she explained before describing “malice and jealousyfrom his teachers in middle school and high school who didn’t hesitate to make disparaging remarks to him in front of his classmates.
“Between 17 and 22, I was addicted to alcohol”
After The Boom 1 and 2, Sheila O’Connor wanted to persevere in the cinema but her career was not as flourishing as that of her sidekick Sophie Marceau. “On only offered me Penelope roles when I wanted a career à la Isabelle Huppert“, admitted the one who considers, with hindsight, her role in The Boom like a “Poisoned gift“. Does she regret accepting it? She hesitates and will not answer the question of the host of France 2.
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Sheila O’Connor still took advantage of her celebrity, for example by entering Parisian nightclubs like the Palace when she was still a minor. A period when she knew excesses. “I partied a little too much. Between 17 and 22, I was addicted, but really. I drank a lot of alcohol“, she revealed. “And besides, me, I needed a lot to start feeling an effect. Suddenly, I was drinking triple the normal“, she added. A habit that led her todo stupid things». «We wake up next to a stranger when we are in the middle of the AIDS period, but we have not heard of it yet“, she continued before reassuring, specifying to have”always been saved by the bell” of his lucky star.
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