Sandrine Kiberlain: “nervous breakdown”, this playmate who tried to strangle her in her latest film

Wednesday, December 11, 2024, Sandrine Kiberlain was invited to the set of C à vous, on France 5. In the middle of promoting the film Sarah Bernhardt, La Divine, in theaters From December 18, the actress made unexpected revelations about one of her acting partners.

© France 5 Sandrine Kiberlain on the set of the show C à vous.

IN BRIEF

• Sandrine Kiberlain plays Sarah Bernhardt in the biographical film 'Sarah Bernhardt, La Divine', in theaters on December 18, 2024.
• During filming, she had to overcome her fear of snakes, despite a declared aversion to these reptiles.
• Discover how Sandrine Kiberlain faced her phobias to fully embody her character.

Cyrano de Bergerac, Le petit Nicolas, Polisse, Elle l’adore, On est fait pour s’entend, Novembre… During her career, Sandrine Kiberlain has starred in many successful films. A few months after seeing her again in La petite vadrouille, moviegoers will discover her in the role of Sarah Bernhardt in the biographical film Sarah Bernhardt, La Divine, in theaters from Wednesday, December 18, 2024.

Wednesday, December 11, 2024, on the set of C à vous, on France 5, Mohamed Bouhafsi took advantage of the presence of the actress to recall that his character lived with all kinds of wild animals, such as lynxes, lemurs, lion cubs, owls, pumas. Sandrine Kiberlain appears in particular with a real lynx in the film. “That was the greatest difficulty of this shoot ? These scenes with these wild animals ?”, he asked her.

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Sandrine Kiberlain: “When you're scared, he can feel that you're scared”

With a smile on her lips, the actress replied: “Very honestly, the lynx didn't give me any problemswhile Guillaume Nicloux (the director) in the morning told me: 'Don't even go see him, he's too angry' and an hour later he told me: 'No actually it's fine'. But then the snake… In fact, at the beginning of filming, Guillaume asked me if I had a particular aversion to an animal and I told him: 'No I don't see,' part a snake' and one day, I arrive, we were supposed to have an alligator and we had a snake”.

While she has an aversion to reptiles, Sandrine Kiberlain slipped: “I had the only little nervous breakdown of the filming at the idea of ​​taking this snake. Because it has a smell, a texture… When we are afraid, it senses that we are afraid, it wants to strangle us(…) But I did it because she, she wasn't afraid and it was necessary to play this character to the end. But ultimately, it's an interesting experience!”.

Sandrine Kiberlain: “A mix of plastic pots and stuff that stinks”

Pierre Lescure then asked her what a snake smells like. “Çit smells like a mix of plastic pots and stuff that stinks, I can't tell! Bon apétit !“, she exclaimed with humor. On the show's X account (ex-Twitter), an Internet user shared: “I'm not throwing stones at him: In her place, I would have been in the same state if it had been a mouse or a rat”.

For Version Femina, the actress had already declared: “I could handle everything, except snakes, my phobia. I had told Guillaume about it, who had chosen a panther. But it was too expensive and, on the day, I saw a huge boa on the set. Guillaume asks me to try, the trainer puts it in my hands and the animal, sensing my fear, wraps itself around my neck. Çit took me ages to acclimatize, but I did it! In hindsight, there was more danger with the lynx. Despite the pieces of meat to bait it, a claw swipe could quickly come”.