The actress is the headliner of “I love America”, a film which tells the story of its director, Lisa Azuelos, who is none other than the daughter of singer Marie Laforêt. Check it out on Prime Video.
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This is the third time you have toured with Lisa Azuelos, what do you like about her?
She is the person she is. We don’t necessarily look alike, we’ve had totally opposite lives, but we’re from the same generation and we both know how difficult it is today to be a woman other than to be a concerned woman. What is it like to be a woman in society? Lisa approaches the subject in a very personal way, and at the same time universal. It touches me, and this film in particular.
Why not defend it as a biopic?
Perhaps out of modesty. When one is known as a “child of”, one is part of the public world and, inevitably, Marie Laforêt, it is very evocative, very strong. Lisa probably didn’t want it spilling out of the movie. She didn’t tell her mother’s story, but her own.
Did this film do him any good, personally?
I know there were a lot of tears on set. She was very raw, very connected…and I think she needed that connection, which she didn’t have with her mom while she was alive, which she suffered a lot from. The lack was still very present and, somewhere, there was like an intuition. She almost wrote this screenplay before her mother died. Because their relationship was complicated, it’s kind of like a release to not have to deal with it anymore. In the end, only the good things will remain.
Like Lisa, has the desire to start a new life “far from here” ever crossed your mind?
Not at all. I love the world, I’ve explored it a lot, but I can’t see myself leaving everything behind. I admire those who dare to do so. Me, I’m more gregarious. I went into exile quite a bit, I lived in America, in England and in Poland, and long moments here and there for filming. And it was great! But I don’t have that call from elsewhere.
Find the full interview with Sophie Marceau in the Ciné-Télé-Revue released this Thursday, March 10.
