Sometimes, not often, we discover a young actress on screen and we are amazed. This is the case for Jade Springer, heroine of “Little Solange by Axelle Ropert. She was only 14 when the director entrusted her with the title role of her film which received the Jean Vigo 2021 prize: a teenager who discovers the harshness of life when her parents (Léa Drucker and Philippe Katerine) divorce.
“I didn’t just want the interpreter of Solange to be natural and cute, confides Axelle Ropert to 20 minutes. I wanted her to have the makings of an actress, to be able to blend into my staging. It was after a demanding casting where she asked young actresses to play scenes of pain that she found a unique pearl: Jade Springer.
A star is born
“I’ve always loved acting,” says Jade Springer. When I was little, I pretended to cry in my room to make my parents come running before telling them it was a joke. She manages in a breathtaking way to make her character pass from the sweetness of a naive teenager to the despair of a growing adult who sees her little world crumble. “I didn’t experience the same thing as Solange, explains Jade Springer, but I had a difficult time in my life and I can understand how she feels. »
“I believe that there is a gene of the actress and the actor, specifies Axelle Ropert. There are some who learn to play, others for whom it is innate. Jade Springer must express intense and delicate emotions in Little Solange. When she discovers that her parents, very loving, are not perfect and that their love will not last forever, it is a collapse. What take this good student for a ride on the side of school failure and depression.
“Discovering a young actress like Jade is a great joy, an emotion that I would only have once in my life,” says Axelle Ropert. Jade is what is called in music a pure note, a perfect note. ” These deserved compliments did not give the big head to Jade Springer, now aged 16, who continues her studies in class of First. “I would like to continue in this profession,” she says. The way she devours the screen and capsizes the heart of the viewer, moved by the distress of little Solange, makes them optimistic about her future.
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