“When you have nothing to lose, you throw everything away!” : This comedy saved Aur Atika’s career with 4.8 million downloads

At the age of 9, Aure Atika appeared on the screen for the first time in Jeanne Moreau’s film L’Adolescente. After training courses (law, Ecole du Louvre) and odd jobs, he was noticed thanks to a Polaroid by a casting agency, which sent him to auditions.

That’s how he got in 1992 the main role of Virgin Thevene Sam Sufi. Career on the small and big screen is already thirty years old and quite regular.

However, he almost abandoned his profession at first before finally achieving success with La Vérité si je mens. The actor confided so Exclusively on the microphone of our colleagues at Télé-LoisirsAlong with his participation in the documentary collection, he talks about it, the next issue of which will be broadcast on Monday, April 8, 2024 at 9 pm on Canal+docs.

“When you have nothing to lose, you throw everything away!”

Thomas Gilloo’s film has arrived “At a point in my life when I had already shot a little earlier, but it wasn’t working very well. I had to make a living, I was all alone, my mother was no longer in this world and I didn’t have one. Someone help me.

I told myself that maybe this job wasn’t for me, especially since I was interested in many other things in life.”

So he went to the casting of the film and tried his best. “When you have nothing to lose, you throw everything away!” He was confused. Thus, she would reprise her role as Kareena twice, in the second film released in 2001 and the third in 2012. From there will be born his fear, not to allow himself in this comedic role.

“Although I’ve made auteur films, I was associated with La Vérité si je mens, which was a hit. It was a bit of a struggle, a struggle, to prove that I wasn’t the only one that was recognized at the time. The film A beat that would skip my heart from Jacques Audiard Where I was finally able to escape that label” confides the actor.

Since then, she has largely shown that she can bounce back, like her role in Mademoiselle Chambon, which would earn her a César nomination for Best Supporting Actress, or, more recently, the solid series Les Bracelets rouge.