At 45, Sara Mortensen can look forward to a successful acting career, as she is the co-star of the series “Astrid and Raphaëlle”. But the actress has had tougher times, notably because of a small physical difference.
While France 2 will launch the 6th season of its popular series Astrid and Raphaëlleactress Sara Mortensen made some confidences in promo. The co-star of the program, who opposite Lola Dewaere, has agreed to talk about her physical particularity, visible to the eye.
Sarah Mortensen:I suffered an accident to my left eye“
It’s in the podcast Shadows and lights that the actress, now 45 years old, returned to the event which turned her life upside down as a child: “When I was four years old, I had an accident on my left eye and I had many operations. So this eye was not always very aesthetic, which earned me infinite ‘kindness’ from my classmates at school throughout my schooling.”
And Sara Mortensen adds, lucid about the current times: “Luckily social media didn’t exist, because I don’t know if I would have survived if this harassment had been anything other than what I went through and what used to be called teasing.” Indeed, other personalities have suffered the surge of trolls on social networks, such as Hélène Ségara who also has a health problem with one eye.
Sarah Mortensen “singular” ? “Does it matter to me…I don’t think so!”
“In my time, we didn’t take it seriously (harassment, editor’s note) like today, even if, in my opinion, we don’t yet worry enough about it”finally decided Sara Mortensen who is herself the mother of a 16-year-old teenager, Aksel Rivière, seen alongside her in the series OPJ.
If this harassment inevitably left its mark on her, Sara Mortensen today cultivates her difference. “I have always been unique and, in a dual culture, we are even more so. I have always been the Norwegian here and the French there”said the Franco-Norwegian discovered by the French public in the cult soap opera on the small screen More beautiful life. “Does it matter to me…I don’t think so!”she concluded.
