Like Charlize Theron in Furiosa, this big international actress shaved her head for her new movie!

Vicky Cripps’s face has changed! The actor, recently seen in The Three Musketeers and Viggo Mortensen’s Western At World’s End, shaved his head for his new film. Furiosa’s face, which is actually that of author Constance Debres.

The actor will actually star in the film adaptation of the novel Love Me Tender, as we revealed last May. Written by Constance Debre, published by Flammarion in 2020 (Prix Les Inrockuptibles), it received very warm critical acclaim in France and is enjoying a second life internationally, with great success, especially in the United States.

Anna Cazenave Cambe was commissioned to write and stage this uppercut book. The filmmaker directed the feature film Gold for Dogs, which was selected for Cannes Critics’ Week in 2020, and his short film Gabber Lover, which was selected for Cinéfondation, received the Queer Palm in 2016.

The book she’s adapting has very direct writing and a very direct story of this mother who lets go of her past and discovers her homosexuality in her 40s. The story talks about the price you have to pay to finally experience this freedom.

He has affairs with women while also struggling to continue seeing his son, for whom he has lost custody. She lives with her father, played by Antoine Reinartz (Fall Anatomy, School Life).

The cast around Vicky Cripps will also include Monia Chokri, Clotilda Kurau, Park Ji-min (Return to Seoul), Viggo Ferreira-Redier, Feodor Atkin, Aurel Petty and Salif Cisse (In the Boarding House, Mother’s Mother. ).

Filming began last week and will take place over 40 days in Paris and a small portion in the Southwest. Produced by Novoprod Cinéma, in particular with A plein temps producer Laure Calam, the film received support from the Nouvelle Aquitaine region, France 2 and Canal+. It will be distributed by Tandem.

The director contacted us Anna Cazenave Cambet He says he is honored that Constance Debrey has given him the confidence to adapt his book. “I felt immense freedom“, he tells us.

And as for the author’s style: “There’s something about his rhythm that came into the scriptThe rest of the film director prefers to keep the form of the adaptation as a surprise.

This will be the first film adaptation of Constance Debre’s book. It should be noted that another of his novels has recently become the subject of an adaptation for the boards, in this case. namewhich was performed at the Théâtre du Rond Point in Paris last April.