Julie de Bona (Les Combattantes) “a miracle of genetics”: she evokes the good drama of her life

This Monday, September 19 is predicted the launch of the TF1 occasion collection: The Fighters. With the First World Struggle as a backdrop, the present is dedicated to the tales of 4 heroines, embodied by Camille Lou, Audrey Fleurot, Sofia Essaïdi and Julie de Bona. All actresses properly accustomed to TF1 and, for some already seen in The Charity Bazaarone other headline phenomenon adopted in 2019.

In The FightersJulie de Bona has been chosen to play the position of mom Agnès who can be shaken by the horrors of battle. A brand new character far faraway from the lifetime of the actress, whose origins are additionally unsuspected. “I come from an immigrant household. We skilled a little bit of every part, we struggled a bit. Mother, who was a housewife, turned a seamstress after which opened a Vietnamese restaurant to help the household. My father had a small import-export firm that went bankrupt. Confronted with the scenario of my mother and father, I didn’t permit myself to develop into an actress. However in the long run, ardour prevailed over purpose! Having been cradled by Asian tradition and this modesty of emotions, it was additionally a means for me to specific my feelings“, she confided throughout an interview for Paris Match in 2016. Exterior, it is vitally troublesome to note even an Asian line on the face of Julie de Bona, to her nice remorse.

It’s kind of the good drama of my life

“It’s kind of of the good drama of my life, furthermore. ! As a baby, I used to be blonde with blue eyes… in my household, this was skilled as a miracle of genetics. There was an actual fascination! I maintain my origins from my maternal grandmother. Vietnamese, she fell in love with a French army physician in the course of the Indochina Struggle. My grandmother left every part for love and got here to settle within the south of France. That they had six Métis kids, together with my mom. My father is of Italian origin“, she continued.

Rising up, it was not simple for the 41-year-old actress to be heard on the topic. “My faculty pals thought my mom was my nanny. Nobody wished to imagine in my Vietnamese origins, particularly since my sister does not appear to be me in any respect! She inherited very Asian options from my mom… and I needed to justify myself on a regular basis! It was very violent“, she nonetheless remembered.

The FightersMonday, September 19 from 9:15 p.m. on TF1