Anja Verderosa, the revelation of the fire test
The very beautiful first feature film by Aurélien Peyret, subtle variation on the cruelty of adolescence marks the beginnings in the cinema of this actress who bursts the screen.
YESTERDAY
If Anja Verderosa made her cinema debut with The fire testhis first steps on a scene were much earlier. “” I started theater lessons at 6 years old. I owe my very mother a lot Cinephile that showed me a lot of great classics very small. But the real click, the one that deeply makes him want to play, is … Louis de Funès! “” I had such love for him. As a member of my family. I knew all his films by heart. I know I will show them to my children. And they have an interest in loving! She confides very early to her parents her desire to become an actress and immediately found an enthusiastic echo at home. “” My father is a bass player and has lived music since he is my age. My mother is a singer, painter, sculptor. I could not have better examples on a daily basis. And they always pushed me to believe in my dreams. They paid me different theater schools including the Simon course, I don’t know how much they spent for me! With The fire testI can finally give them the currency a bit of their room! Even before these courses, his mother had registered him at the Children Bout’chou agency. “” I did little things here and there, short … My mother hoped that with these little experiences, I would be less stressed when I pick up a real role. The years preceding the bac, studies take precedence over the rest. But once the diploma is in her pocket, she launches, while following lessons, in the race for castings. “” But, without an agent, it’s really hard! And I will only be able to drop out of one: that of Skam France. This series broadcast on France.TV Slash which follows the daily life of high school students. “” It was a very small role in season 10 but a very important moment for me. First because I was able to shoot with Zoé Garcia, my best friend since I was 10 years old, present on the series from the start. But especially because having arrived hyper anxious, I was able to learn to manage my stress. And I know that this experience served me enormously on The fire test. »»
TODAY
The fire testAurélien Peyret’s first feature film. An adolescent love story against the backdrop of social classes. Anja Verderosa embodies Queen, a colorful young beautician who, with her fluorescent green mini-dress, her false nails with a length length and her natural tamper, joins her boyfriend Hugo on a Breton island where she has always spent her vacation. A character as fascinating as it is complex since unraveling in an artifice fire of apparent clichés before the film subtly pushes us to change our look full of a priori on her. And Anja Verdoresa impresses by her way of embracing all the facets of this raw diamond, in flamboyance as in moments of humiliating cruelty that she lives when she understands that her boyfriend is ashamed of her in front of her real-friends friends whose judgment he fears.
“” I had to see 400 actresses in hearing for Queen “Explains Aurélien Peyre. “” Someone who spontaneously gave off their Grande-Guy side but be able to show its depth and melancholy spontaneously. Anja did not arrive late in the process, thanks to her meeting … on social networks with Bruno Lévy, the film producer. “” I’ve been a fan of Cédric Klapisch’s films since my mother made me discover The Spanish inn. And one day, I came across his producer Bruno Lévy on Instagram. I followed him, he followed me in return. And he asked me to come and take tests for the role of one of Hugo’s friends, Colombe (which finally embodies on the Suzanne Jouannet screen). I went there but I did not correspond to the role at all. So I knew that I would not be chosen. Eight months are going on. Bruno Lévy and she still follows on Instagram where his photos show his physical evolution. “” I had lost weight. I no longer had the same brown square. My hair was blond and long. I now corresponded more to Queen and I think that Bruno managed to project me into the role. »»
He offers to come back auditioning, she meets Aurélien Peyret then her future partner Félix Lefebvre. And here it is committed. “” It was so fast suddenly that I think I did not make the extent of the role. Especially since it was the first time that I have read a scenario. On SkamI had only read my scenes. But love at first sight for Queen is immediate. “” Her extravagance, her personality, her humor … I liked everything of her. In fact, I can’t find it so different from me. So I wanted to defend it. It’s so violent to live what she lives. To feel away, judged and excluded in a group. And I find that she is doing so well by taking things with lightness, with a step possible, unlike me. »»
Because Anja also suffered this look full of a priori on her. “” I have always been tried a lot in my life or in any case I felt a lot judged. For my extravagance, in particular. Because I made up very early, around 13 years old. My mother has always authorized me to do it as long as it made me beautiful and I felt good. But as I started to have visibility on social networks, like Paola Locatelli at the same time, I was sexualized very young. I posted things that I would probably not do again now. There was a certain unconsciousness with me. »»
This link with Queen constitutes the basis of the work of her interpretation which she will develop with the help of exchanges with Peyret and Félix Lefebvre of course but also of a coach Véronique Ruggia ” who really made us all get out of our limits, our shells And by writing the diary of this character, imagining everything that could have happened in his life before the start of the film. “” What I found sublime in the script of Aurélien is his sincerity and the accuracy of his gaze on life so everyone’s ability to find themselves in his characters. »And his interpretation is not for nothing
The fire test: a bright film on the cruel of adolescence (critic)
TOMORROW
This interpretation should lead it to a minimum to a pre-appointment to the César and logically in the short-list of the 5 named in female revelation. But even before the cinema release The fire testshe has already won her next role. In another first long See you soon somewhere Of two young Nantes directors Armand Foëx and Clément Devilliers, whose filming begins in August. The intention intertwined with four characters in a village of the heart of Brittany: two cousins who have just lost their grandmother and two friends- a jewelry designer and a funeral-pump employee- who join forces to win the election of Miss Côte d’Armor. “” A role in Queen’s antipodes “She rejoices in advance. We haven’t finished hearing about Anja Verderosa.
