Lyna Khoudri

"Don't you want us to talk about people who bring light, instead?."

"That's when my grandfather started receiving his veteran's pension… He's a great man, Rachid Bouchareb. He called me, and I said to myself: 'I hope he calls me to offer me a role. And yes."

"As an actress, in the theater even more than in the cinema, in fact, I have always had a rather expressive way of acting. I love shouting out a text, declaiming it, giving it its poetic and political force. Here, indeed, my acting is more subdued, and that's what interested me ."

"I was born in Algiers in 1992, at the beginning of the 'black decade'. At the time, intellectuals were threatened with death. Since my father was a journalist, we came to France."

"I said to myself straight away: 'It's Algiers, I need this role.' It was too close to what was in my heart."