Imaginary Oscar, cellar and passion for karaoke: the secrets of Virginie Efira's beginnings

Alexis Patri 3:08 p.m., January 04, 2022

INTERVIEW

We knew Virginie Efira, a TV host, and today we know her as a talented actress.

But what was his life like before?

Facing the actress, Lisa-Marie Marques reveals some secrets of Virgine Efira's youth in the "pre-fame portrait" that she draws on Tuesday in 

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Funny and cute anecdotes which did not fail to make react the one who embodies the character of Camille in the film 

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As a child, Virgine Efira was passionate about the film

and loves being chosen to read in front of her classmates.

She puts on shows, like

by Ionesco, but also has fun signing autographs in the playground and imagining a fake Oscar presentation in her honor.

“The Oscar presentation was just in my room, with my girlfriend Annabelle,” says Virginie Efira.

"I still did not involve 45 people in my narcissistic delirium!"

"The other actors discovered 

Racine

 at the age of five and that upset them"

"I do not know why I told this shameful memory", jokes the actress, before advancing an explanation.

"Often, I read interviews in which one has the impression that all the film actors already had a passion for texts at a very young age, that they discovered

at the age of five and that upset them! As I came from television, I wanted to say "me too." But I had to admit that I still had a desire for notoriety that I do not understand, because my parents loved me. "

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Also revisiting her passion for signing autographs in the schoolyard, she adds: "I don't know if, as I said I was going to be an actress later, the other children in the class asked me for an autograph for more. late out of politeness. In any case, I remember that there was still this thing, which I find completely absurd, of signing autographs for them in the courtyard. "

A childhood passion for fear

At 10, the future actress devours many films.

But not always his age.

This is how her parents surprise her one day in front of a Clockwork

, just at the moment of the scene of the assault with a giant phallus.

The film

, seen at the same age, left him a certain fear of taking a shower.

“That's wrong, I wash myself every day!” Jokes the actress.

"Ah yes, the shower scene! Well maybe, yes. But if you take a bath, you can see what's in front of you!"

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But the young Virginie Efira likes to scare herself, sometimes with the help of her father.

"My father found it very funny to lock me in the cellar. Well, it was a joke, eh, he didn't really lock me up!", She warns.

"I was going down the stairs and he was pretending to scare me. Children like to be afraid! It's a funny thing anyway, this connection to fear."

A karaoke that she made trendy

The future actress grows up and then becomes a student in a theater school. A time when she discovers "Le Snap", a slightly seedy karaoke bar in Brussels where she has her song-loving habits. A place that she will make trendy years later by bringing all the cinema gratin. “Yes, it's a place that I loved!” She confirms. "You might think that you have the talent of Amy Winehouse. But for that, you have to have drunk a lot of wine!"

"But it's a very nice place. In Belgium, in these places and mainly at the Snap, karaoke is not a competitive thing, it's quite happy, people from everywhere are singing", continues the actress .

And I took badly recalcitrant French people there, who have become very pro at karaoke.

But it has happened to me a bit since then. "