It’s what GTMAX ?
Netflix found itself in France like a goose that laid golden eggs: action cinema. In fact, both in Italy and around the world, everyone has heard of the two films Lost ball ANDAKAproduced by Rémy Léautier and worn by Alban Lenoir. Spectacular successes that have set ratings records on the French feature film platform, beaten only by the recent ones Under the Seine. This November 20th we can find out GTMAXnew production by Rémy Léautier and first production by Olivier Schneider, former stuntman, fight choreographer and stunt coordinator.
Soélie Carella, a young motocross prodigy, sees her dreams of success dashed following an accident. Now he focuses on training his brother Michael. When he is recruited by Tmax scooter pilots for a high-level heist in Paris, Soélie must overcome her fears to save him.
We met Ava Bayalead role and explosive revelation of GTMAX. Energetic and determined like her character in the film, she told us about her passion for motorbikes, Soélie’s character and a stunt that could have gone very wrong…
How do you become Soélie, an exceptional pilot ready to do anything to save her family?
Ava Baya : Like everyone else, through a casting. But above all, with my agent we heard about a motorcycle film and we said to ourselves: “we’ll call them immediately. This character is me, I have to do it, he’s obliged”. Motorcycles are my life. I’ve been riding a motorbike every day for ten years. A movie about bicycles, yeah, that doesn’t happen much. But then there, directed by Olivier Schneider… I called immediately.
So the machines of GTMAX I had no secrets from you…
Ava Baya : I started with the MT-07, then with the MT-09 and now with the XSR 900 GP. Complete Yamaha! In GTMAX I’m the one driving most of the time. It wasn’t easy at an insurance level to pass it on. But I wanted to do it so much that in the end they accepted and said: “well… okay!”. They tested me directly on the first day and I convinced them that day.
In this culturally very masculine universe, Soélie also stands out because there is no real love story linked to her story.
Ava Baya : She’s in love with motorcycles and her family, and it’s funny that you bring up that point because we actually cut out a love scene.
The scene where Jérémie Laheurte’s character and mine had a sexual relationship. We said “no, we’ll take it away. It’s already been done and that’s not the main thing.” And then it’s not because there’s a girl and a boy that it’s necessarily…
It was a great satisfaction to be in this world, Soélie has nothing to prove, she is there and she is so strong! I date a lot of guys and I know what it’s like to have to prove that you deserve your place, more than them. But things are changing, girls are starting to carry a lot of things. And then, the bike doesn’t mean “throwing it away” completely. It’s a story of balance, of having a gaze that goes far, and women have it.
Do you remember a moment from the filming of GTMAX particularly ?
Ava Baya : For the final scene, two stuntmen had to fall “on the butt” of my motorcycle, right behind it. Then I go at full speed, they fall and pass within two fingers of my steering wheel… They were all really scared. Olivier looks at the combo: “no, it wasn’t good”. So it was amazing! This shows the level of Olivier’s demands. He said: “do it again”, the guys who had just fallen said “ok” and we did it again. There, I said to myself, “we are truly among the professionals”. I loved it.
Source: Cine Serie
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