Although Lara does use the locker room to keep her clothing and put on her pointe shoes, she uses a private restroom when going to the bathroom.
He thinks long and hard.“When I dance ballet, I don’t feel totally free because I still have a lot to think about.
He also started contemporary there. He’s still wearing nail varnish from yesterday’s cover shoot and is dressed in vintage orange flares and a billowing white blouse.Victor grew up in the non-macho world of ballet. In it, he plays Lara, a fifteen-year-old girl trapped in a boy’s … People aren’t really bothered with the fact that you have the boys and the girls. Lara is a supportive sister, and not only gets him ready and takes him to school each day but checks in on him from afar. Maybe people would attack me because I was playing Lara and they wouldn’t like it.” After developing an interest in dancing, Polster enrolled at the Royal Ballet School of Antwep. “They saw in the script that it was a beautiful project.
At school, Lara excels, both in her ballet classes and socially. He wanted to keep going, so he went to Antwerp.Victor grew up in the non-macho world of ballet. Stars Victor Polster, Arieh Worthalter, Oliver Bodart ... Wadjda lives at home with her parents, who are loving if a little distracted. Victor Polster for Another Man 29 Victor Polster only auditioned for Girl because he wanted to be in the same room as Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui, the film’s choreographer.
Directed by Lukas Dhont.
It was an incredible opportunity for a dancer. His parents, both radiographers, were not at all fazed by their son appearing in the film. “When you go to a school like mine, at 12 you already know that you have to work really hard to make it.” When I ask him if he ever resented sacrificing teenage kicks to dance he shrugs off the question: “Actually no, because I’m really focused about dance and I really love it.”The more time you spend with Victor, the more you realise how similar he is to Lara: kind and gentle, with a stillness that is rare of someone his age. They said it would be silly not to do it because maybe this would be the only chance I had in my life to do a film.”His family is very supportive, kind and encourage him when pursuing projects.Why he changed his surname from Ketelslegers to PolsterAhead of the film’s release, Victor invented the surname ‘Polster’ for himself; he was born Victor Ketelslegers. His family live in Brussels, but from the age of 12 he has boarded at the Royal Ballet School, commuting Monday to Friday to Antwerp. Victor Polster, is a Belgian actor and dancer best known for his role as Lara in the Girl film.Victor Polster was born in Brussels in 2002. For now, her surgery is delayed.
Her psychiatrist, like her father, is very supportive of her and tries to assuage her fears, but the difficulty of starting at a new school, along with the difficulties of going through puberty, make Lara insecure and reserved. It worked for his character.“I could feel how Lara felt in the film,” he says. It’s just acting.’” The character stayed with him.
I was also taking the very hard scenes home.
Girl is a 2018 drama film directed by Lukas Dhont, in his feature debut, and written by Dhont and Angelo Tijssens.It stars Victor Polster, in his acting debut, as a trans girl who pursues a career as a ballerina.. But when I dance contemporary dance, then I truly reach a point when I just do, being in the moment and not thinking about anything else, just doing.” The dancers who inspire him most are the Israeli choreographer Ohad Naharin and the late Pina Bausch.
He was 14 at the time and went along hoping to be picked as a background dancer in the drama about a teenage trans girl training to be a ballerina. It was in this group casting process that they found Polster.The film was also met with criticism from the trans community in Belgium and France. It took me some time to switch back to Victor.”Ahead of the film’s release, Victor invented the surname ‘Polster’ for himself; he was born Victor Ketelslegers. He was 14 at the time and went along hoping to be picked as a background dancer in the drama about a teenage trans girl training to be a ballerina.
Sometimes it became really difficult to move on, to say: ‘Okay, now this scene is finished.
Victor Polster only auditioned for Girl because he wanted to be in the same room as Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui, the film’s choreographer.
In May, Girl premiered to a standing ovation at the Cannes film festival, winning a prize for its 17-year-old male star Victor Polster and three more awards including the Caméra d’Or. First, he changed how I looked. Now you can really just see it as a group without seeing their genders.
Victor Polster A trained ballet dancer, sixteen-year-old Victor Polster won the Un Certain Regard: Best Actor award at Cannes film festival for his first acting role, portraying Lara in Lukas Dhont’s Girl (2018).