Seldom have we met someone as amiable and peppy as Mathilde Ollivier. The 28-year-old actress welcomes us with a bottle of champagne and an abundant smile, „It’s so lovely to meet you“. It was, indeed.
The scope of Mathilde’s work conforms to exceptional women who are somewhat constrained in one way or the other. Alongside action, and drama, Mathilde has also been entangled as one of the leading roles in Netflix’s new mystery series ‚1899‘. Albeit the creator’s previous venture ‚Dark‘ set the bar extortionately high, ‚1899‘ very quickly cemented itself as a viewer favorite. Dissident female characters are just a few of the endeavors she’s been gaining momentum for. As one medium alone is just plain scanty, the French-born actress flips the script to storytelling. It came to no surprise, she produced ‚The Upright Woman’ – a heartfelt documentary on the political plight of West African women. Charmed we know of this project, she goes on to speak about her mission to demystify and ensure a morally just narrative, throughout.
Though Ollivier’s nuanced portfolio of honest diegesis is just as enticing as her subtly melodic French accent, she reveals that she’s been quite nervous. No shock there, it’s not every day you star in a Netflix series that ranks as most-watched, barely a week after release. Being at the intersection of psycho-thriller and sci-fi, mystery, Mathilde stars as newly wedded Clémence who just like 1,500 other European migrants, finds herself on a steamship set on a course to America. ‘People being imprisoned by their mind’s restriction’ seems to be a facilitated interpretation of ‚1899’; the series explores the nature of an unknown force and the passengers‘ fight to regain control of their lives. Just hours before ‘1899’, premiered at Funkhaus Berlin, TUSH sat down with Mathilde, to chat about the roles she’s drawn to, inspirations, and more.
