How Liza Asuelos’ daughter became the heroine of LOL 2.0

Two decades later, Thaïs Alessandrin succeeds Christa Théret at the center of the story, alongside Sophie Marceau. The director explains everything to us.

It is the film that marked an entire generation. In 2009, Lisa Azuelos captured the spirit of French youth in LOL around a mother-daughter duo played by Sophie Marceau and Christa Théret. In the shadows, we also found the little sister, played by Thaïs Alessandrin… the daughter of Lisa Azuelos:

“She was about 8 years old at the time. And she said to me, ‘I hope you’re not going to get someone else to play the little sister!’ She did a bit of theater but I would never have thought of it myself.”tells the director First.

Almost two decades later, Thaïs Alessandrin is back to wear LOL 2.0 and succeed Christa Théret, who did not wish to return.

Because initially, the script for the sequel is well written for Anne and Lola. But faced with the refusal of the young actress that Lisa Azuelos had spotted thanks to And who are you on?she must change her mind. “I then asked Pathé if they wanted me to replace Christa or if I developed a story about the two other children who, today, are 25 years old. continues Lisa Azuelos. “And suddenly, it becomes a coming-of-age story. Which is ultimately a blessing in disguise, because I don’t stutter with the first generation side.”

Louise, Anne’s second daughter, thus becomes the heroine of LOL 2.0. And for the director, there is no question of casting a new actress. It’s Thaïs Alessandrin – who had also played in the meantime in A meeting Or I Love America – who takes her place alongside Sophie Marceau. And for good reason: “I was inspired by what Thaïs experienced. the director tells us. “She came back to live with me when I returned from the United States, so we found ourselves living together even though we hadn’t lived together for 5 years. I told her to pay rent and go and do catering for a year. And she, who was declining like all these actors who don’t work, I saw her flourish…”

The two women will then help each other to capture the breath of the new generation. Lisa Azuelos makes her daughter read her scripts, who does not fail to offer constructive criticism:

“With great diplomacy, she assures me that it’s bullshit because young people aren’t like that. They don’t talk like that. They don’t say the words I put in their mouth. So, I told him: ‘Go ahead, if you’re so strong, let’s write together’. And it was essential because I didn’t want to steal their truth. I know a lot of things because I’ve had the same house for 28 years and my children grew up here, I’ve seen them evolve, but I’m not them, I don’t know everything about them…”

The story of LOL 2.0it is to be read at the moment in the new First (number 570, currently on newsstands and on the online store).

LOL 2.0to be seen at the cinema now.