Camille Cottin: “The fact that Fanny Herrero wrote the film Ten Percent was decisive”
The actress, starring this week in The Children Are Well, takes stock of her career choices and her rich current affairs in the new issue of Première.
Two years later Toni with familyCamille Cottin already finds the young director Nathan Ambrosioni in The children are fine. An intimate drama where she plays opposite Juliette Armanet and Monia Chokri and this time plays a woman responsible for raising the children of her missing sister. A new collaboration that she accepted without asking any questions, as she explains in an interview with First (to read in issue 568 currently on newsstands):
“When I met Nathan, he was 23 years old. As I am almost twice his age, one might believe that I play a mentoring role, when in reality, it is he who teaches me a lot (…). When a director as gifted and whose outlook I like writes with me in mind, I take it as a real chance.“
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The actress revealed by Asshole has flourished for several years in auteur cinema, but she has not given up on comedy. Far from it. “I am simply offered less. But whenever I get the chance, like with Just an illusion of Nakache and Toledano, I enjoy it. And this is also the case on Ten percentRight now.“She is currently finishing filming the Netflix film which extends the successful series five years after its conclusion. And here again, the human factor was essential in her decision to step back into the shoes of Andréa Martel, who has since become a director.
“The fact that Fanny Herrero wrote the film was decisive. I have so much confidence in her that I knew the quality would be there. There is something joyful about meeting these characters again like finding friends you haven’t seen for a long time…“
On all fronts, the actress will also chair the 2026 César Awards in a few months, after having been the mistress of ceremonies at the Cannes Film Festival. An additional consecration, but also the responsibility to speak at the high mass of French cinema:
“I’m offered five minutes on stage: what do I want to say? To share? What words can do good? And, as in Cannes, I will not be alone: Fanny Herrero and Éloïse Lang (the director of Connasse) will be by my side. They will help me to take on this word that I perhaps would not have spoken alone.“
Find the entire interview in issue 568 of Firstwith Avatar 3 on the cover, available on newsstands and on our online store
