Zahia Dehar, lead actress of a movie? When the information leaked, the press was dubious. But in an easy girl , Rebecca Zlotowski, theatrical Wednesday, the former escort girl, propelled on the media scene in 2009 for a matter of manners involving several footballers including Franck Ribery, is more than convincing.
"Resist the restrictions and expectations of this society"
After a few minutes in her seat, Zahia's face and play on the big screen radiates. She is fair, sober, with her particular phrasing. And her character, that of a young girl who spends a summer with a rich collector in exchange for gifts, questions us: what if ultimately it was the ultimate freedom? Arrange one's body, sleep for one's pleasure, with whom one wants, in exchange for what one wants, by making fun of what one will say?
"I have always been attracted by these totally free women, who resist the restrictions and expectations of this society," confirms the young actress at the microphone of Europe 1.
"No big word, a kind of elegance"
Since the scandal, ten years ago, Zahia had already been chosen as muse by Karl Lagerfeld, before playing a very small role in a film by Marilou Berry. To reach a new milestone in cinema, she wrote to Rebecca Zlotovsky ... on Instagram, managing to make him want to write a story related to his media past.
"When she sent me this little sign, I looked at what she was staging on her own, because that's the social network, and I was shocked by her way of speaking." says the director. "A little 60 years, no big word, a kind of elegance that immediately projected me into the imagination of Eric Rohmer ..."
So, after long dreaming of becoming an airplane pilot, Zahia is now considering pursuing a career in cinema. She cites the films of Luis Buñuel and Roman Polanski as references.