Nadia Tereszkiewicz questions “the freedom to be yourself” by playing a bearded woman in the film “Rosalie.”

Every day a personality invites themselves into the world of Élodie Suigo. Wednesday, April 10, 2024: The actress Nadia Tereszkiewicz. She stars alongside Benoît Magimel in the film “Rosalie” by Stéphanie Di Giusto.

Nadia Tereszkiewicz is a French-Finnish actress known for her role as a crazy lover in Just the beasts by Dominik Moll in 2019 and in the French-Israeli series Possessions Broadcast on Canal+ in 2020. For her role as Stella in the semi-biographical drama, she was notably rewarded with the César as Most Promising Actress in 2023 The almond trees by Valeria Bruni-Tedeschi. In 2016 she made her first appearance as an extra in The dancer by Stephanie Di Giusto. The director called her again for the film Rosalie which will be released on Wednesday April 10th and in which she stars alongside Benoît Magimel. In this engaging and captivating film, she is Rosalie, a woman from 1870. She has been hiding a dark secret since birth. His face and body are covered with hair. To avoid rejection, she shaves. She marries a landlord who quickly discovers Pot aux Roses. So he has to learn to love her.

France info: Rosalie is truly a look at love and the pain of love.

Nadia Tereszkiewicz: Yes, it was, beyond appearances. If we can forget that beard, question love today, question what femininity is in a society where we are very judgmental of people who are different, then I hope the film becomes something more Calls for tolerance.

Over time, hasn’t the difference ultimately become a strength?

In any case, this character, Rosalie, makes her specialness a strength, and I feel like it’s a struggle that I identify with in the sense that throughout the film she’s trying to accept herself and herself to free yourself from the gaze of others.

“’Rosalie’ is a film that questions the freedom to be yourself.”

Nadia Tereszkiewicz

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The director says that she had auditioned several actresses before you and that when you arrived you were the only one with that beard. What justifies that? Is it because you have danced before? You must have been a prima ballerina. Dancing is something very difficult. We must abide by His commandments, His codes. Did it work?

Perhaps it unconsciously played a role in the fact that I found a form of freedom in the cinema to play different women, because dance brought me a lot. It’s been a wonderful few years. They also charged me emotionally. But it was also very difficult in terms of judgment, in terms of bodies and in the way in which we strive for a form of standardization, at least in classical dance. In fact, it is more difficult to become a woman if you do not follow the rules of classical dance and the idea of ​​​​giving yourself up. They talked about Valeria Bruni-Tedeschi, she told me: “The ridiculous is wonderful“. And here I think that I am not being ridiculous. I have retained this phrase that says that we must free ourselves from all gaze, even if we are dependent on the gaze of others, trying to give up on ourselves and let go.

“With this figure I had the impression that I was also working on myself, which was not trivial because the beard literally stuck to my skin.”

Nadia Tereszkiewicz

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Your mother is Finnish, your father is Polish. You always have a very distinct personality from the beginning because one of your directors suggested you change your last name and told you that if you want to be successful in this industry you have to change that last name and you resisted .