Laetitia Casta says that everything changed in 1976. It was two years before he was born, but in that summer a heat wave invaded everything as a premonition perhaps of what would come next. The weather changed, the situation of women changed, he says, and changed the fact that, for the first time, the future was no longer clear. 'Beyond the horizon', Delphine Lehericey's film of which she is the protagonist, talks about this. It is a necessarily steamy drama that brings the former model and now an actress to the San Sebastian Festival for the second consecutive year .
You are the mother of three children, you are the mother in the film and the responsibility of motherhood is one of the arguments ... I believe that all the mothers of the world live a delicate moment. We face for the first time in history the obligation to explain to our children that perhaps the planet we leave them has no future. When I was a girl that didn't happen. The future existed. We were a privileged generation without knowing it. Do you also feel the responsibility of using the power of fame to change things? In fact, I am an UNICEF ambassador and I try to get involved in all the projects that have to do with women and children. Society gives you a power and it is fair that you return something of your privilege. Cinema can also be a tool to change things. I try to choose roles that tell me something and have something to say to others. His film is in a section where half of the productions are directed by women ... It is good, it is logical, it must be so. According to setting quotas to favor women's voices? I don't think that putting fixed numbers is a good solution. Who says the exact number of women and men that have to be and depending on what? I think things have to be achieved perhaps more fluidly, more naturally. What relationship does it have with its past as a model? Do you regret any decision? Do you think that his work in the fashion world hurts him in the movies? I don't think about it. Life took me around and I am very grateful to my work with Yves Saint Laurent or Jean Paul Gaultier. I was educated alone, there were no interpretation schools in my place of birth and I discovered the world of cinema through fashion. I also have the advantage that, unlike actresses looking to advertise perfumes, I can say that I have already done that. I am not interested [Laughs]. Very little has appeared in commercial films ... Of course, it is not money that I am looking for in the cinema. I have always made the cinema that I would like to see. Last year every two questions to a filmmaker an era about '#MeToo', how is he living this era 'post # MeToo'? I have always said that I made my own '# MeToo 'a long time ago. I have met Harvey Weinstein and many people like him. And my attitude has always been the same: "No, respect me," he told them. They educated me to be strong. It is time to fight for education. And that's why I made this movie, because it's the story of a mother who sacrifices everything, including motherhood, so that her son is better. But this is not a fight against each other, from women against men, it is a common struggle. What relationship does she have with beauty? My parents never told me she was beautiful. Never. We live in a society where we all look alike.The obsession with superficial beauty is creating clones. We are prototypes of an extreme femininity without defects. All that of the selfies on Instagram is creating a very strange society. I have always fought for my broken tooth [he points it out] or for my face that is not symmetrical. Beauty has to come from within, it has to be from everyone, personal. What memories do you have of when Marianne was a symbol of the Republic? It was an honor, but I remember being accused of living in the United States. Those who said that did not understand that citizenship is a universal concept.According to the criteria of The Trust Project
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