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

— Lyna Khoudri

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

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 .

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.

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