by Member of the Biarritz Film Film – New Waves Jury, actress Mallory Wanecque returned with Allociné to the way she experienced the success of “L'Amour phew” by Gilles Lellouche, a film at nearly five million admissions.
For nearly five million French people, she is Jackie, central person of love phew, one of the most important successes of 2024 made by Gilles Lellouche. It is thanks to this role that Mallory Wanecque, almost 19 years old, was revealed to the general public before winning an appointment to the César for best female hope.
Present at the Biarritz Film Festival – Nouvelles waves, where the actress officiates as a member of the jury, Allociné went to meet her to talk about her life a few months after the passage of the tornado “phew”.
Allociné: A few months passed after the film was released and the César. With hindsight, how did you experience this tidal wave of glances carried on you?
Mallory Wanecque, actress: When you don't expect it, it can be very violent. Me it was violent, but common sense. I lived it very well. My personal life has not changed. I always do the shopping in the same place, I always eat in the same place, I keep the same friends, the same entourage. What has changed, however, is that I be recognized in the street.
Then there is a real rise in power with the networks. I receive a lot of messages. It is a wave of love, a wave of recognition. It's super beautiful. I receive messages from girls and when they tell me that I represent the new generation, it makes me very happy.
You are not tired of it being told about love phew then?
No, squarely not. I never want to be fed up. And above all, I understand the impact it had in young people, I am especially happy with that.
I understand that we can take the big head. It all makes you dizzy.
Is it difficult to keep a healthy setting after such success?
I think keeping the same course is very simple. What is more difficult after a big success like that is to keep your head on your shoulders. For that, you need a entourage and a family. People who know how to put you back on earth. Everyone tells you: “You're beautiful, you're it's super strong“, All that. I understand that we can take the big head. All this makes you dizzy. When I come to my parents, nothing has changed.
Many say that young people desert the cinemas. However, the public of love phew is quite young. Do you agree with this observation on the relationship with the room at the new generation?
It's sad, May I think it's a little true. The prices only increase, it becomes super expensive to go to the movies. Then it's true that now, with platforms like Netflix, we have access to everything from home. I do not deny the fact that it is a thousand times better to go to the movies because you have a big screen. The sound is much better. But I understand the young people who prefer to stay in their bed, in their sofa to look at.
© Jean-Marc Lhomer/Bestimage Mallory Wanecque at the Biarritz Film Festival.
Your next film, Raptorsgo out on July 2. It is a disturbing thriller on a series of female and journalists who are investigating. Is that your thing the thrillers?
So usually not at all! I don't like when the police films are overbidding, when they lose their realism. Here, this is not the case. The script is inspired by several stories because it is basic, the author of the script, Christophe Cantoni, was himself a journalist for the detective magazine.
What touched me a lot was this story of feminicide addressed by a man and it is very well discussed, which is very rare. It is a film with constant tension and it can go up without stopping until the end when everything explodes. I think it is also the role, the leading role that is most distant from me.
Interview by Thomas Desroches, in Biarritz, Wednesday June 25, 2025
The Biarritz Film Festival – New Waves takes place from June 24 to 29, 2025
