Sébastian Marnier Talks Casting ‘Call My Agent!’ Star Laure Calamy In Twisted Rags To Riches Thriller ‘Origin Of Evil’ – Venice Q&A + Clip

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Sébastian Marnier’s psychological thriller Origin Of Evil, starring Call My Agent! actress Laure Calamy as a factory worker who discovers the father she never knew is a wealthy businessman, opens Venice’s Horizons Extra sidebar on Thursday.Embarrassed by her humble background when she meets her father and stepmother and sister in their luxury Mediterranean mansion, Calamy’s character pretends she is an entrepreneur on the verge of success.

But nothing is as it seems and the lies begin to pile up.Calamy was in Venice last year in Horizons title A Plein Temps for which she won the best actress award for her performance as a single mother trying to get to a job interview during a transport strike.In Origin Of Evil, she is joined by a high-profile ensemble support cast featuring Canadian actress Suzanne Clément, French veterans Jacques Weber and Dominique Blanc, and Doria Tillier.Marnier was previously at Venice with the chilling drama School’s Out, starring Laurent Lafitte as a teacher in charge of a class of disturbed teenagers, who witnessed his predecessor commit suicide.The film is lead produced by Paris-based Avenue B Production with Canada’s microscope and Marnier’s Poison Productions.

Charades handles international sales.Ahead of Thursday’s premiere, the director talked to Deadline about his new film for which we can also reveal the first clip.DEADLINE: What was the inspiration for the film?SÉBASTIEN MARNIER: It is the story of my mother.

In her 60s, she rediscovered her father, who had left when she was just four.She was extremely left-wing, a communist and we lived in a working-class suburb.