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Félix Lefebvre (left), Alexis Tonetti and Virginie Efira in “Nothing to lose”, by Delphine Deloget. CURIOSA FILMS
How to dream of a better entry into the big world? In Summer 85 (2020), teen movie maritime and tragic by François Ozon, Félix Lefebvre was born in cinema like Sophie Marceau. A scene magnifies Alex, his character, candid and transfixed, dancing in front of the boy he desires. He ends up putting a walkman on his ears, in a gesture of homage to the first romantic rapprochement between Vic Beretton and his flirt in La Boom (1980). If we always have this image of the actor in mind, it takes a few seconds to recognize him in Nothing to lose, social drama by Delphine Deloget in theaters on November 22. Dull and hesitant, with greasy hair and a stuffy body, Félix Lefebvre plays Jean-Jacques, the older brother of a child placed by social services and whose mother (Virginie Efira) will try to regain custody.
“I like to go towards the new. If I’ve already played a type of role, it’s like I’ve already done it.” advances Félix Lefebvre to explain this spin. Before that, the 24-year-old actor had already “transferred” several times: impresario of the duo NTM (Supreme, by Audrey Estrougo, 2021), apprentice fisherman showing great confidence to seduce a woman twenty-five years his senior (The Passenger, by Héloïse Pelloquet, 2022). He will soon be a son trapped in a troubled maternal relationship in Morgan Simon or the victim of mafia tricks in Giovanni Aloi. “The more I move away from myself, the more I refocus on what is essential,” he insists.
By catching up, after the baccalaureate, with his “gaps” cinephiles, he observed, admiringly, the metamorphoses of a Daniel Day-Lewis, a Caleb Landry Jones, a Jim Carrey, actors among the most transformative in American cinema. Suffice it to say that the challenge of gaining 20 kilos to play Jean-Jacques in Nothing to lose immediately impressed him. Bread, wholemeal pasta and rice, sodas, cheese and chocolate before going to bed made up his diet. And, since his character is an aspiring pastry chef, he also learned to cook cheesecakes and fruit tarts to better devour them. “I never thought I was big enough. When gaining weight, Americans tend to add an accent, a tic, a prosthesis. In fact, the weight is enough to transform you: your step slows down, your body moves differently, you are already someone else. »
Entre Shakespeare et « Stargate SG-1 »
Son of an artist, painter and musician, and a researcher in a pharmaceutical laboratory, Félix Lefebvre grew up in Antony, between Shakespeare, working in the theater company he frequented, and Stargate SG-1, a futuristic soap opera watched with family. After a stint at a Parisian district conservatory then through the free class at Cours Florent, and a few appearances in short films or TV films, his agent propelled him to the casting ofSummer 85. His text: the monologue of a teenager fascinated by death and attracted by a young biker fickle. “Ozon is playful. He gave me no indication. I played this thinking I was going to be a serial killer…”
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