Hippolyte Girardot in "La Daronne": "I can easily play a policeman"

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She is "50% cop, 50% drug dealer".

The poster for

, in theaters on Wednesday with Isabelle Huppert in the title role, sets the tone for this film at the crossroads of thriller and comedy.

The famous actress plays there a court interpreter without history, who will gradually find herself at the head of an immense traffic of narcotics.

Hippolyte Girardot, who shares the poster, embodies him a mad commissioner in love with this "Daronne" of the world of drugs, as she is nicknamed by the police.

The actor returned to this astonishing role, Monday morning in the program "Culture media" on Europe 1.

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Hippolyte Girardot returned to the script of the film, adapted from an eponymous novel written by Hannelore Cayre in 2017. "Our heroine, the 'Daronne', played by Isabelle Huppert, is a court interpreter who speaks Arabic. She is mandated by a police officer to translate suspects who have been arrested and whose language you do not understand. When you wiretap someone and speak Arabic, you also need an interpreter to hear what is going on. say ", details the actor, seen in particular in

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"It is an interface between the police and the drug dealers. It is because it is there, in an in-between, that we make a dishonest but understandable proposal to it," he continues.

Because the character of Isabelle Huppert, a mother of a family without history who has difficulty paying for her mother's retirement home, will switch to trafficking first out of financial necessity.

But also out of attachment for a nurse, whose son is a drug dealer, and whom she will agree to cover before becoming a drug dealer herself.

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Policeman, "the role is quite easy"

Hippolyte Girardot, he plays the role of a curator in love with this famous "Daronne".

"I am her employer, I am a commissioner, and therefore obviously she will betray me", laughs Hippolyte Girardot.

"This is where there is the possibility of a comedy. From the moment she takes this step aside, we can have fun and also make comedy", analyzes the actor.

So how did he prepare to take on the role of commissioner?

"I checked the merchandise to see how it worked. Then I put a few friends in the cast," smiles the actor.

"No, there is no preparation! I look in the scenario what I have to say", he answers more seriously.

"Police officers are people like any other, so their emotions can be mine and mine can be theirs. So I can easily play a policeman, especially since I also play the frozen lover, a role I have. practiced many times, "he says.

"It's pretty easy as a role, for me."