![]() While the implementation of VFX was pivotal for Ducournau’s world-building, particularly in the final throes of her mad escapade, the use of prosthetics on set helped Rousselle inhabit her character. I would look really weird, and really not pretty. The transformation was the most difficult thing, because it was on my body, not just a psychological twist,” Rousselle says over Zoom. ![]() “When you experience something is very different from understanding it. Committed to seeing it through, Rousselle worked on both her acting skills and her body for about a year, training with a coach in order to gain muscle, with a dancer to master the routines, and with stunt professionals in preparation for violent sequences. ![]() Multiple follow-up meetings took place to ensure that the young woman had acting potential beyond her ideal appearance, and if her disposition was congruent and conducive to the director’s needs. That’s what I felt when I saw her,” she notes.Īnd yet, a dose of doubt remained since Rousselle had no previous credits. You feel drawn, like you want to put the camera on that person and you want to film them from every angle. “You have to understand also that it’s very important for me to want to film someone, and that’s something that you can’t really put into words. That’s how she came across her mystifying star Agathe Rousselle. Initially, she and her casting director Constance Demontoy scoured Instagram, checking both male and female profiles. Searching for someone to embody the part of Alexia/Adrien (the character’s other iteration), Ducournau envisioned an androgynous look and hoped to find a non-professional actor. It’s a way for me to empathize with characters that are not your typically likable characters.” “That’s exactly what I’m trying to do in my work. You know this thing we do, going like ugh, because we know it hurts and yet you’ve never experienced it,” she explains. If you see someone who’s being stabbed in the hand, you personally will not have been stabbed in the hand, probably ever, but watching that you will have an immediate reaction of empathy in your body, like it hurts you as well. Convinced that our visceral understanding of physical pain is the most honest entry point to empathy for others, even those with questionable morality, the director aims for the viewer to relate to the bodily experience of the protagonist of Titane-Alexia, a car show model turned merciless murderer-without condoning her vicious acts.
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