Rebel Moon on Netflix: Who Is Sofia Boutella, Star of Zack Snyder’s Blockbuster?

He’s the face of Zack Snyder’s space epic. Sofia Boutella takes a new step in her Hollywood rise with Rebel Moon. The one who has often appeared in make-up and other crazy looks in numerous blockbusters, here plays a sassy hero named Korra, who is at war against the galactic empire.

Before that, Sofia Boutella was an alien, a mummy, an assassin with ankle blades, and even Charlize Theron’s lover. A curriculum that reflects his taste for different roles and the challenges he continues to face.

Born in Algeria in 1982, in Bab El Oued, to a mother who was an architect and a father who was a composer and graduated from primary school, she quickly became familiar with dance and music. Sofia Boutella is obsessed with great artists like Michael Jackson and Madonna, not yet knowing that her path will cross with them years later.

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In 1992, when Algeria was going through its dark decade, he left the country and settled in France with his parents. He is only 10 years old. After dancing, she turned to gymnastics, where her abilities took her to the French championships. Discovering hip-hop will lead him to new horizons. He joined the Vagabond Crew, a company that played a major role in the democratization of breakdancing in France.

With her teammates, Sofia Boutella goes out on the street, mostly in the Châtelet-Les Halles shopping center in Paris. His participation is different battles It received little recognition until it was noticed in 2001 by choreographer Bianca Lee. The young dancer was cast in the film Le Défi and then discovered an appetite for comedy.

It was his meeting with artistic director Jamie King in 2006 that changed his fortunes. Sofia Boutella becomes the face of Nike with a million-viewed ad. The choreographer introduced him to Madonna, who took him on her Confessions Tour.

The Queen of Pop becomes his mentor. He hired her to appear in two of his music videos and asked her to perform alongside him during halftime of the 2012 SuperBowl, one of the most watched television events in the world.

One childhood dream leads to another. In 2009, he was contacted by Michael Jackson himself to join the This Is It tour. The singer’s sudden death disrupts the plans. This meeting will never happen…almost. In 2011, he played the lead role in a music video hollywood tonight One of the tracks from the artist’s next album.

Since 2012, at the instigation of Madonna, Sofia Boutella wanted to devote herself to cinema. He appears in Kingsman, Star Trek: Without Limits, Atomic Blonde, Hotel Artemis and is opposite Tom Cruise in the new version of The Mummy, the film in which he plays the lead. Each of his characters displays great physical strength that he has developed throughout his life as a dancer.

Now an actor, he also dabbles in auteur cinema alongside Gaspar Noé with Climax. Here too, his talent as a performer allows him to shine on screen in this alien, which combines dance and horror.

Sofia Boutella plays the main role today Rebel MoonThe big production is over $166 million. This colossal project took three months of training and 153 days of filming. If he has already done a lot, the actor never stops dreaming. When AlloCiné asks her which directors she would like to work with, Sofia Boutella answers Peter Greenaway and again Gaspar Noé.

“I take each project as it comes, but there are so many talented people who inspire me and I enjoy exploring film genres as well. I would not like to stay in the same style. This is without doubt, he says. But yes, I want to do more independent films, work on human relationships, diversify and explore some different characters.”

Commentaries collected by Thomas Desroches, Paris, December 2023.

Rebel Moon – Part 1: Child of Fire is available on Netflix.