"i was sad" : Romane Bohringer remembers his birth mother’s abandonment

Feature film on February 22 Small The film, directed by Julie Lerat-Gersant, will be released in theaters. Actress Romane Bohringer will play an educator who welcomes a pregnant woman into her center. This is the daughter of a poisonous mother. Inside female On Sunday, February 5, Romane Bohringer spoke more precisely about her character.

“[Mon personnage] questions how the public institution should take a position in complex and painful situations The educator in my body has to make difficult decisions: Should a bond be established with the mother when she is toxic? How best to act with limited resources? He lives on a ridge between tragic consequences and beautiful decisions. But beyond my character, I was very impressed with the story of this young man who is expecting a child he doesn’t want.‘, he explained.

This movie made the actress, who was abandoned at the age of 9 months, very emotional.

“I was very impressed when I read Julie’s script. There was such a twinning with what I went through, with the themes that tormented me and watered my life: motherhood, contagion, the fragility of the mother-daughter bond, the construction of an adult who had a depressed childhood.admitted Romane Bohringer.

The abandonment her mother provided raised many questions.

“I had a stepmother who meant a lot, but initial abandonment highlighted the questions many women ask about their legitimacy as a mother. Indeed, how can one feel attacked when deprived of a referent at the beginning of one’s life? When a person has an accident, there is a certain sense of curse that weighs on him. But every day I spend with my kids makes me tell myself I didn’t turn out that bad after all. And ultimately, knowing that I wasn’t repeating the same pattern, that I succeeded where my mother had failed, made me stronger.”, the actress revealed.

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