Does Virginie Efira have any desire for an American career? The 48-year-old actress has not yet made a name for herself as an actress in the United States, but she spoke without filter on the subject at the RTL microphone…
The popular Virginie Efira may shine as an actress in France, but she has not yet conquered the American market like Omar Sy, Marion Cotillard or more recently Camille Cottin. But the 48-year-old Belgian actress stars in the new film The Embersdoes she even dream of having a career in Hollywood?
Virginie Efira facing the American dream: “I don’t think…“
The actress who won a Cesar for the film See Paris again has many ambitions in his career, but becoming known in the United States is not necessarily one of them! “I don’t think Hollywood is waiting for me to arrive“, she said at the microphone of RTL, with humor and a lot of humility.
Besides, if she enjoyed the film One battle after anotherrecently released in cinemas and hosted by Leonardo DiCaprio, the former TV host believes that American cinema has lost a little of its splendor and that there are ultimately not so many projects that make her dream of a career across the Atlantic at all costs: “As much as there are crazy things in terms of series, there are fewer great American films than in the 90s…“
Virginie Efira, the reasons for her absence from the cinema: “Private life has taken up a lot of space…“
Virginie Efira has also taken time for herself and has not appeared in any film released in 2024.I would say that privacy has taken up a lot of space. Not that she wasn’t taking it before, but it was all a bit mixed up. There needed to be time for something else. A child, in this case. A desire to take some time“, confided to Allocinated the one who gave birth to a boy, named Hiro, in August 2023.
And added: “Maybe also that I didn’t necessarily have offers that really interested me after the birth of my son. It’s possible. There is no film that I have made telling myself that I was doing it for material reasons“. But Niels Schneider’s partner has no intention of bowing out and has even returned in force in 2025, by being on the bill for Privacy by Rebecca Zlotowski and The Embers by Thomas Kruithof.
Moreover, the one who is also the mother of a 13-year-old daughter, Ali, born from her former love with the director Mabrouk El Mechri, did not rest on her laurels during this break from film sets. “It’s not because I took a break of almost two years that I stayed lounging on my couch. I managed both my son entering daycare and my eldest entering college.“, she confided to Madame Figaro a few months earlier.
“There, I came back to all my faults! I don’t know why we say through anyway. It seems like it’s a disease to want to work, and to love it !“, assured Allocinated the one who is also working on other films in project.
