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Adele Exarchopoulos, Souheila Yacoub on Starring as Rebels With a Cause in Venice Sci-Fi Thriller ‘Planet B’ (EXCLUSIVE)
Adele Exarchopoulos ('Inside Out 2') and Souheila Yacoub ('Dune 2') discuss their roles in the French sci-fi film 'Planet B,' playing at Venice.
French cinema rarely ventures into full-blown sci-fi – a genre largely dominated by deep-pocketed U.S. productions – but rising filmmaker Aude Lea Rapin(“Heroes Don’t Die”), rose to the challenge with “Planet B,” a dystopian thriller headlined by Adele Exarchopoulos(“Beating Hearts,” “Inside Out 2”) and Souheila Yacoub(“Dune 2”) playing rebels with a cause. Exarchopoulos says she “doesn’t necessarily need to embrace the morality of my characters, but it’s always nice when, on a human level, there is a form of connection.” The actor, who broke through in 2013 with a Cannes Palme d’Or winning performance in “Blue Is the Warmest Color,” says she was struck by Rapin’s vision to tell this story with limited resources and alluded to events that happened in the French region of Notre-Dame-des-Landes, where violent protests erupted against a project to build an airport a few years ago, as well as the Yellow Jacket movement. Yacoub, who most recently starred in “Dune 2” and Noemie Merlant’s “The Balconettes,” says that although she never picks role because of a political theme, she found the meaning of “Planet B” to be “beautiful and strong” because it “mixed science fiction with the harshness of what we experience today.” She mentions the demonstrations filled with young people that have taken place in France, whether it was against the immigration laws, police brutality or the rise of the far right.
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