2023-05-02 15:01:52
After many dramatic roles (Nymphomaniac, Amants…), the Franco-British actress changes register. In Seeda wacky comedy by Eloïse Lang, Stacy Martin forms a couple with Marie Papillon. And when the two women decide that they want a child, they will live a hell of an obstacle course…
Seed starts from a serious reality – the difficulties experienced by couples of women wishing to have a child – and transforms it into a wacky comedy. Is it a film that you wanted to see at the cinema?
Stacy Martin : Yes, obviously it’s important to have these kinds of representations, because it’s a story that a lot of women live. It’s a subject that has been a little taboo, people don’t know how to talk regarding it yet, so let’s talk regarding it and without taking gloves, or attacking! A film like that opens a door to an audience that perhaps would never have thought they wanted to watch a film regarding two women trying to have a child.
What’s more, in comedy form.
Yes, it’s a genre where you can talk regarding a lot of things with more distance. Besides, I loved Bitch et Dropped (both directed by Éloïse Lang, editor’s note), there is something extremely human in the way he works.
It’s a turning point in your career. Did you expect it?
Yes ! It’s something I needed as an actress, I’ve done a lot of dramas. It was a rather unexpected challenge, because it was a different way of working. It’s important to do justice to comedy as a genre. In any case, it was in the logic of my course, and then I like challenges.
LIVE AS LIGHTNING_ Stacy Martin is confidently wearing one of Nicolas Ghesquière’s signature pieces at Louis Vuitton Woman: the XXL zip.
According to this film, the image that we have had of motherhood for centuries has something fake regarding it.
I agree. In the desire to have a child, there is still this romantic notion, one imagines oneself surrounded by flowers… Whereas an assisted reproduction process, for example, is very complicated. Sometimes it calls into question couple problems, sometimes it doesn’t work… For the surrogate mother, there is also a hormone process: she has the doctors on the phone every day, so there is something very scientific which removes this magical side. But as the film says, everything starts with love and love always comes first.
The moral of the film would be “love is power”?
In my opinion, the end of the film is not the end of the story. It was important to have an “open” ending, because there is no such thing as a perfect ending. Life goes on like in this comedy. The end of the film is therefore the logical continuity of what might happen in life, these women who through this quest encounter obstacles put in place by governments, politicians, even if it is done discreetly. It’s so complicated to do this course. So the movie says, “Let’s not forget to focus on love.”
Can this film change things?
Reality can be very simple when you feel like it. Why was PMA only accepted in 2021? The end of the film shows in any case that there are solutions, all kinds of solutions!
Is the desire for a child changing?
Many women have children later, don’t want any more, can’t have any, don’t want a family life… These scenarios are no longer considered weaknesses or failures, so much the better!
What do you have in common with your character, Inès?
She’s intense, because she spends a lot of time in her bubble, I can be like that. Once she wants something, she is determined and at the same time she completely lives in her world. She was a great character to play because she’s in control and at one point she spins.
Do you think the female characters are evolving?
Yes, but there is still a long way to go. In La Graine, I really liked the fact that the film didn’t question the notion of the couple, and didn’t make a statement out of it either, for once. It shows these two women as they are.
Seed by Eloïse Lang, on Prime Video from May 3.
Interview Mathilde Delli
Photos Davide Carson
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