The Belgian actress opens up about her 12 months spent battling a uncommon most cancers. Now in remission, she is returning to the plateaus.
Émilie Dequenne returns to the massive display screen. Eight months after the general public announcement of her most cancers, the 42-year-old actress is showing this Wednesday, June 19 in Survivre, by Frédéric Jardin. A characteristic movie between style movie and science fiction by which the oceans have lined the continents, abandoning huge expanses of desert. The actress performs a mom who has to combat off hordes of crabs. A disturbing parallel with the non-public combat she has been waging for nearly a 12 months:
“By defending a movie like ‘Survivre’, by which I combat crabs, I’m obliged to speak (about my most cancers)”, she quips with a smile, on the microphone of BFMTV. “I’ve no selection, that’s how it’s!”
For this function, Émilie Dequenne underwent American-style bodily preparation: “I had bodily trainers whom I noticed through video, as a result of I used to be filming, and I ready for this movie in a single month and a half (…) I filmed through the day, within the night I got here house, I had my video teaching session, and on the times once I did not have a training session I went swimming in an Olympic swimming pool. “
Filming for Survive wrapped in November 2022. The next August, the actress found she had most cancers. Adrenal cortex, most cancers of the adrenal gland, in keeping with The Parisian.
“I’ve the ground, so I took it”
It was solely final October that the Belgian actress made this recognized publicly, on social networks. In April, she introduced to be in “full remission”whereas remaining “below very shut surveillance and therapy”.
“I’ve the ground, so I took it,” she explains to BFMTV. “I do know it did loads of good for lots of people, and if it could actually proceed to do loads of good for lots of people…”
“Final I heard, every thing was effective,” she says. “I’m monitored very carefully, as a result of it stays a power sickness. I’m no completely different from others, I’m not resistant to… Nevertheless, there are additionally many individuals who survive this sickness. It is vital to make it recognized. Even when I do not know, I inform myself that I can ship the message that this illness will not be essentially deadly, and that we are able to reside with it.”
The development in her state of well being allowed her to climb the steps of Cannes final month for the twenty fifth anniversary of the movie Rosetta by the Dardenne brothers which received her the prize for greatest actress in 1999. “Resilience is “It is nice”, says Émilie Dequenne about this climb of the steps.
“I filmed an (episode of) Captain Marleau. I’ve loads of nice tasks. I do not need this sickness to cease me from doing what I really like. I’ll adapt, I’ll get there, I need to get there, and I hope that the truth that I get there’ll give hope and vitality to sick folks to say that they are going to get there too.”