Who is Quitterie Picamoles, cousin of the former Stade Toulousain rugby player and muse of Spanish cinema
As part of a series devoted to Toulouse residents who have succeeded in Barcelona, portrait of the actress Quitterie Picamoles.
She’s not an Almodovar chica. But she would have everything to be. She’s not Spanish but it’s just like. At 37, Quitterie Picamoles leads a double life as an actress between Paris and Barcelona. “I am French in Spain, Spanish in France” sums up the cousin of the former 3rd line of Stade Toulousain and Montpellier, Louis Picamoles, to whom she is very close.
After studying law and Spanish which did not convince her and an exchange semester in Granada, the young brunette leaves everything in 2009 for Barcelona where she will learn the profession of actress. “I already spoke Spanish: I was raised by my grandmother with whom I spent all my holidays in the Basque Country. It is a country that I have always been close to”. Her language skills (she has no accent when she speaks Spanish) make her the only foreigner to follow the diction course reserved for apprentice Spanish actors.
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“At the time, it was a bit like a Spanish hostel: I lived in the big apartments in Gracia or Gotico with lots of people. It was great! Quickly, she turns in short films and commercials in Spain. But auxiliaries are sometimes limited in a country where the status of entertainment worker does not exist. “I went to Paris and I had to take lessons again because I had never played in France”. She landed several roles: we see her with her friend Grégory Montel in season 4 of the series “10%”. She also runs under the direction of Pascal Elbé. Newly, she participated in the clip of the singer Suzane, alongside Victoria Abril. “I’m a fan of the Spanish Movida so I was super proud and really happy! »
South of the Pyrenees, we will soon see her in the film by Miquel Romans which retraces the life of Neus Català, the last Spanish survivor of the Ravensbrück concentration camp. “Shooting in Catalan and Spanish lasted a month in Aragon: it was true but it was a very nice experience”. It was transformed more in France than in Spain, Quitterie Picamoles is determined to conquer its adopted country. “They know how to live better than us and then Barcelona is a city of the ideal size. In fact, I feel better in Spain”.