We knew her sometimes blonde, sometimes brown, but never with such a short haircut. In mid-January, Marina Foïs unveiled a bold new look, shedding many centimeters of hair. A radical change, somewhat undergone…

Mid-January in Paris, Marina Foïs surprised her world by unveiling a new very short haircut. A unique look that she is showing today on the cover of Marie Claire magazine for March 2022, a fashion special that she shares with actresses Zita Hanrot and Adèle Exarchopoulos. The opportunity for the actress – who will soon be found at the cinema in They are alive (by Jérémie Elkaïm, February 23 at the cinema) – to explain this nice scissor kick.

For this joint interview with her long-time friend Nicolas Guesquière, artistic director of the Louis Vuitton house, Marina Foïs was also making her very first public outing with her new head. This short cut, she owes it to the shooting of a film that she has just completed in Spain: that of the thriller As Bestas. It was director Rodrigo Sorogoyen who asked her to get rid of her hair, which had been mid-length until then.

“I would have said yes to everything, but I still cried a lot. Knowing that it was ridiculous to cry, she confides. I love my job, I wouldn’t do any other, but lending your body to someone for three months is not nothing.” The mother of Lazare and Georges (17 and 13 years old) adds: “Being an actress means consenting sacrifices: the distance from my family, the loneliness, the haircut…”