Juliette Cécile: an unexpected trajectory towards vertical dramas

On journalist Jen Cooper 's Vertical Drama Love channel, actress Juliette Cécile looks back on her unique career, her notable characters and her way of inhabiting the vertical format.

A former French teacher, Juliette Cécile discovered film sets in the United States almost by chance. Spotted for a small role in a blockbuster, she found a new calling there. She quickly made numerous appearances in American productions, before establishing herself in vertical series with a performance that was at once physical, instinctive, and inhabited.

Now based in Los Angeles, she often plays assertive, complex, and sometimes formidable characters. She claims total involvement, even directing her own action scenes: "I took a few hits filming a fight scene, but I'd do it again in a heartbeat."

This relationship with the body, with the physical intensity of acting, is part of a popular tradition of visual comedy and expressiveness, which Juliette reinterprets with sincerity and rigor. For her, everything rests on a simple rule: "You can play anything, as long as you do it seriously."

However, she points out the limits of a format where the pace can harm the subtlety of the performance : "It's not always easy to nuance a character when you're shooting three episodes a day." At Duanju.fr, we hope to see her continue to explore, twist, and deepen this format that suits her so well, both direct and full of humanity.

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