It was she whom Valeria Bruni-Tedeschi chose to play Stella, a character who bears a strong resemblance to the debuting actress who entered Les

Amandiers

thirty-five years ago, whose school was run by Pierre Romans and Patrice Chéreau. .

And the director may assure you that "it's not a biopic", she may say that "this character mixes several of them", we recognize Valeria very well in the guise of Nadia Tereszkiewicz, on stage in the role of the blonde Sofia from Chekhov's

Platonov

, or in life in Nanterre or Paris alongside her prematurely deceased childhood love.

Complicity and common energy

"She asked me above all not to imitate her," warns Nadia Tereszkiewicz, a blonde Franco-Finnish actress who did not need to force her talent to make Valeria Bruni-Tedeschi think of her without needing to look like her.

Former dancer who entered hypokhâgne after the baccalaureate before turning to the cinema, the sweet and calm actress already displays, at 26, a beautiful filmography:

Savages

by Dennis Berry,

Persona non grata

by Roschdy Zem,

Only the beasts

by Dominik Moll.

Three films released in 2019, the last of which allowed her not only to win the Best Actress Award at the Tokyo Film Festival in 2019 but to meet Valeria Bruni-Tedeschi.

It is their budding complicity and their “common energy”, as Nadia Tereszkiewicz calls it, which will encourage Valeria to entrust Nadia, in

The Almond

Trees, with the role of her youth, and even of her life.

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