Fake mustaches, accessories, assertive curves, fanciful outfits. And, above all, a lot of talent. In 2010, Luce almost broke into the “New Star”. Without imagining that two months after her first bonus, she would become the big winner of this eighth season. Ones that leave an impression on the public and the minds. Fourteen years later, Luce will make her return to the screen this Monday. Well, not exactly. Luce has become Lucie Brunet again, and it is under her real identity that she is nominated in the female revelation category for the 35th Molières ceremonythe equivalent of the Caesars for the theater.
“We must not be afraid of words. I’m living my dream. At the age of 12, I was convinced that I would be a theater actress,” she smiles. “In high school, I took a theater option. Even when I attended nursing school, I had the idea of working nights as much as possible in order to be able to afford courses later. » The Luce tidal wave arrived in the meantime. With two albums, tours… but a passion that has never faded.
“In two or three years, I acquired fifteen years of experience”
“I like to tell myself that “New Star” was a big learning experience,” she explains. Music is behind her for the moment, without denying anything. “I learned everything there and music gave me a big boost, giving me visibility. With the two tours, the studios that I was able to do and the numerous projects in which I participated, it’s as if, in two or three years, I had acquired fifteen years of professional experience.
But if there was a before and after-“New Star”, there is Luce and Lucie, two people in one. “I really like to separate the character that I created, which is Luce, who is a kind of superego who gets away with a lot of things. And I like talking about Lucie, so my self. It’s as if I could go anywhere being Lucie Brunet. »
Since the free class competition at Cours Florent in 2016 until this nomination for Molières, the Catalan born in Perpignan and leaving to join the capital at 19, has not changed her passion. Until Denali. This piece that no one wanted for a long time, and which is nominated in four categories at the ceremony. “No one wanted this project, no one put a kopeck into it. We’ve only been paying ourselves for a year,” she explains. Until the Théâtre Marigny, in 2021, spotted it after its success off Avignon. The play will resume at the end of June in the Parisian theater before, certainly, going on tour in France.
Lucie Brunet plays Denali, a tragic character, based on a very real news item, directed by Nicolas Le Bricquir. “A hyperintense room where people leave upset,” he explains. Which we can also hate. We follow young people completely trapped in their social determinism who, for an hour and forty hours, make all the possible and unimaginable bad choices. But with a very playful staging where the viewer finds himself as if he were watching a Netflix series.”
A dark character, badly damaged by life, to the point of committing the irreparable. “Such an intense piece to play that I stopped smoking on November 1st, because you have to carry your voice a lot and I told myself that I wouldn’t be able to keep it up, it’s not possible,” laughs -She. At 34, Lucie has remained sparkling, smiling, sunny. But she is no longer Luce, without denying her. “I want to explore everything. It turns out that I discovered a passion for tragedy. »