“It scared me more because I wasn’t filmed”: this actress is the discovery of La Petite with Fabrizio Luchin

Just a few months after the terrifying and anxiety-inducing La Tour, Guillaume Nicloux is back in a completely different register. La Petite, in theaters from September 20, follows a sixty-year-old who learns that his son and his companion have just died in an accident. The couple was expecting a child through a surrogate mother in Belgium. Then the grandfather-to-be decides to go and meet the young woman.

In front of Fabrice Luchin, in a more restrained role than usual, the general public will discover Mara Takin, a young actress born in Brussels in 1997.

The daughter of a criminal and a violin maker decided, when she was bored with studies, to take theater courses at the Brussels Academy. However, she did not intend to pursue a career in comedy, and this was accidentally noticed during a wild casting. At the age of 17, he got his first acting experience in the short film Créatures, Camille Mol’s graduation film about a teenager who discovers sexual desire.

Speaking to AlloCiné, he recalls the encounter that turned his life upside down: “Cinema is a place that is not very accessible. So I didn’t think about it. I thank Camille Mol because it’s a character I never imagined playing, she’s a lunar, introverted girl. “I discovered a family, I discovered what cinema was , I found people who are still my friends today. My life would never be what it is without this woman seeing me in me, and I am deeply grateful. ”

Listen to our full interview with Mara Takin at the recent Angoulême festival:

This debut was followed by appearances in short films as well as on television for an episode of Profile. In 2019, he was seen for the first time in the cinema, in the action comedy Walter and Hors Normes with Eric Toledano and Olivier Nakache, where he plays the role of an educator. A discreet role that nevertheless allows him to gain visibility and climb the stairs of the Cannes Film Festival, where the feature film is presented at the closing of the 72nd edition.

After the Belgian detective series Public Enemy and the mini-series Le Mensonge, the actor returns to the Croisette in 2021 with Rien à foutre, selected for Critics’ Week. She plays the little sister of Adele Exarchopoulos, a low-cost airline flight attendant whose life is nothing but a constant rush. His performance earned him a Magritte nomination for Best Supporting Actor in 2023. She is also nominated for Best Actress for La Ruche, in which she plays the daughter of a bipolar woman played by Ludivine Sagnier.

In 2022, she is again in the credits of the Belgian detective series, this time called Son of, where she plays the daughter of a gangster. He also stars with Isabelle Hooper in La Syndicaliste.

A few weeks ago, audiences were able to see him in The Beast in the Jungle, a free adaptation of Henry James, where he falls under the spell of Tom Mercier. Since Wednesday, he has been sharing the La Petite poster with Fabrizio Luchin.

A film she didn’t even audition for: Guillaume Niclou invited her to Ghent, where he was scouting locations, and met her for coffee before telling her he had the part. He recalls: “I realized that the role that Guillaume was offering me was important, and it scared me even more because I didn’t get the role. He had never seen me play: was I going to shoulder or not? I decided to do it myself and trust him. After all, if he He chose me because he felt I had the potential.”

The director did not make a mistake: we find Mara Takin in Un Mohican, next to Alexis Manenti; La Vocation, set in a psychiatric hospital; and the Sambri series, around the Sambri bully.