Victor Polster – Lukas Dhont’s Girl | 2018 Cannes Film Festival

Lara is an adolescent committed to becoming a professional ballerina and with the support of her father, she sees no limits to her pursuing this dream and not unlike her peers — she must wrestle with the limitations of her body. In his acting and award winning debut (landing a Special Un Certain Regard Best Actor Jury Prize), Victor Polster takes on the lead in Lukas Dhont’s Girl with a determined bullishness and convincingly details in swift movements and alone time the triptych of self-image issues packaged in the violence of puberty and being born as a boy. Unveiled at Cannes Film Festival in Un Certain Regard section and multiple winner (including the Camera d’Or) for more than just his striking androgynous quality and incredible physical performance, I had the chance to sit with Polster in Cannes to ask about how he viewed the character, the working method utilized with Dhont, and how he prepared himself for the role.