It’s difficult not to mention the friendship between Vic and Penelope in La Boom. If these are inseparable in the films, was this also the case in real life? Sheila O’Connor gave the answer by returning to her relationship with Sophie Marceau during filming, in a France 2 program.
New to Henri-IV high school, Vic only 13 years old quickly meets Pénélope who will very quickly become her new best friend. A friendship that has made many fans dream of La Boomand who also never stop wondering if their interpreters Sophie Marceau and Sheila O’Connor liked each other so much in real life.
A question who finally got his answer in August 2022. Sheila O’Connor was a guest on the set of It starts today for a special show, which brought back stars of yesteryear. The opportunity for Faustine Bollaert to ask him if the complicity of Vic and Pénélope was also present for Sophie Marceau and Sheila O’Connor, and the latter’s response may be surprising.
They lost all contact after La Boom
Sheila O’Connor recounted in the flagship show of France 2 that she and Sophie Marceau were just colleagues, and that their relationship did not go any further. “ We were accomplices, colleagues, but we weren’t that accomplices in life. We were accomplices on screen. Afterwards, we never bit each other. But we were cute (car) it was well seen at the time » .
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Their relationship was therefore purely professional. Moreover, after the filming of the two films, Sophie Marceau and Sheila O’Connor took completely different paths, and consequently lost all contact. Also, the interpreter of Penelope does not have good memories of her life afterwards La Boom.
« In mailboxes, we received threatening letters with skullswritten in blood (…) Meanness, jealousies. There, we manage strangely, because we say to ourselves: ‘But why do I trigger this in others? What did I do ? It’s a nice film,’” she remembered on the show It starts today.
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