If Isabelle Fuhrman’s face is familiar to you, it may be because you saw her as a child in the title role ofEsther where she played a juvenile killer. In The Novice by Lauren Hadaway, discovered at the Deauville Festival, the young woman has grown up well but she is still just as intense as a student who gives everything for her university’s rowing team.
“To say the role was physical is an understatement,” the 24-year-old actress told 20 minutes. Since it was a very low-budget film, there were no comforts, which helped me get into my character. The heroine is so obsessed with sport that nothing matters to her anymore, which quickly makes her unpopular with those around her.
When ambition turns to madness
Isabelle Fuhrman did not have an understudy for the rowing scenes. She submitted to a draconian training and suffered in her flesh for her ambitious sports composition and it shows. “There is a background of masochism in the way she considers her activity, insists the actress. I don’t think you have to go that far to be successful in the sport. » After days of rowing and carrying the canoes, Isabelle Fuhrman was in a state of exhaustion, a not really likeable heroine. The actress understood her character very well with whom she admits to having found some points in common.
“There is necessarily a competitive aspect also in my profession, recognizes the young woman, but I have never been so self-centered, no doubt because I have relatives who support me and keep my feet firmly on the ground. » We sincerely wish Isabelle Fuhrman not to lose common sense like her character who is exhausted to the point of falling into a form of madness. “This reflection on ambition and the excesses to which it can lead spoke to me, explains the actress. It led me to ask myself questions about my profession and my conception of ambition. » The Novice goes far beyond the framework of sport to be able to speak to anyone who has ever tried to surpass themselves in their personal or professional life.