Noémie Merlant is THE actress to watch. Already crowned with a César, she will soon be the star of the film “Emmanuelle”. Has she gotten a big head since she found success?
Since her film debut in the 2000s, Noémie Merlant has already appeared in around thirty films, some of which have been critical or box-office successes, such as A difficult year Or Tar with Cate Blanchett… Last year, she even received the César for best supporting actress for The Innocent. Does she still have her feet on the ground?
Her family in trouble: Noémie Merlant’s anger
While she will be the star of the film reboot Emmanuelledirected by Audrey Diwan – also starring Naomi Watts -, is the actress managing to keep her feet on the ground now that her career is taking off?Of course, when you’re an actress, you can quickly become disconnected. My life has completely changed but my old life is not that far away. And I have a family, who I see a lot, who keep me from being out of touch. My friends, my boyfriend (her partner is the actor Gimi Covaci, editor’s note) and my family are not at all out of touch” she confided in a recent interview with Number.
Noémie Merlant, who told the magazine that she lives in the suburbs of Montreuil, adds: “My mother is a caregiver and she graduated to become a home help (…) My father and my sister live on the pension for disabled people (his father is disabled and his sister has a debilitating illness, editor’s note). Even though I am not to be pitied today, I feel sorry for them and I can only be committed to their side. Because today, I can finally help (…) I find what is happening today very hard. It makes me furious..”
Noémie Merlant, a woman of her time
Like many people in their thirties, the actress is not only concerned with social and economic problems. She also has at heart ecology but also and above all feminism. The one who filmed with Adèle Haenel in Portrait of a Lady on Fire explained it for Madame Figaro last year.
“All these movements that are created thanks to social networks to support women or the oppressed of all sides give me hope. Another positive change is mutual aid and solidarity between women, what we call sisterhood today. We need it, we have lacked it, and it is changing.” she said. Surely, she still has both feet anchored to the ground.