It is not easy to cover a subject as sensitive and poorly understood as intersex* on television. Director Yaël Langmann achieves this with this outstanding series that won an award at the Series Mania 2022 festival. The story of Sasha, a high school freshman who just arrived at her high school. The girl, who was assigned a boy at birth, recently learned that she is intersex. Then he has only one idea in mind: to finally make the transition to fully live his feminine identity with which he feels more in tune. Meanwhile, she must adapt to this new environment and make friends with her new classmates, who fascinate and fascinate this brilliant student with an androgynous physique.
“Adolescence, the age of transformation”
The director explains: This series first of all talks about puberty, intersexuality serves as a backdrop. It is an age of transformation, of desire awakening, in which sexual identities are affirmed. » Actress Angèle Metzger (Seen in the cinema in 2019. 100 kilo stars, by Marie-Sophie Chambon) correctly interprets this high school girl with a heavy secret. He trusts: The role of Sasha is special to play. We follow him from A to Z as if we were inside his head, inside his skin. We never take our eyes off him for a second. I was always filmed even when I had no messages. I was able to get to the bottom of my character. It was a difficult exercise because I tried to see myself alternately as a boy and a girl. As for the sex change, it did not require a dramatic transformation. Sasha does not change her dressing style, she always wears loose jeans and a T-shirt. The actor admits that he is a little uncomfortable with this duality: Leaving this character was not easy for me, but it was a very interesting personal experience. »
A ‘giant gift’ to Daphne Bürki
In the parent role we find Grégoire Colin and Daphné Bürki, who until then were known to the public more for her performances as hosts than for her talents as an actress. And yet the Culturebox host comes out as an animated actress: My character represents all these mothers in turmoil versus their young who are pushed around by life but always take the reins thanks to love and willpower.. He also did not hesitate when we presented the project to him: “ I read the script on my flight to Martinique. I spent eight hours laughing and crying. Everything was so successful that it was a huge gift given to me. “He is a persuasive, touching and generous actor… We hope to see him again in new cuts very soon.
Hacene Chouchaoui
* Also called intersex, this is a trait that affects about 2% of the world’s population. A person is said to be intersex if they are born with sexual characteristics (genital, gonadal, or chromosomal) that do not fit the classical dual definitions of masculine and feminine.
Source: Programme Television
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