Renate after Julie: the new Scandinavian star who will take everything

Back in the cinema with sentimental value, Renate Reinsve patiently builds her international career, which led her gently to Hollywood sequins, without forgetting European cinema. Meeting with the actress of the moment.

His name is quite unpronounceable, but he will soon be on everyone’s lips, as his angelic and Mutin face is already essential.

Renate Reinsveit is of course the overwhelming Julie (in 12 chapters). A tailor -made written role by Joachim Trier Who offered her the Cannes interpretation prize in 2021, revealing it in the eyes of the world. Four years later, the Norwegian actress regains her favorite filmmaker with Sentimental valueintimate drama with Bergmanian accents, and confirms that it is much more than a shooting star. Today, at 37, Renate Reinsve is one of the rising stars of world cinema.

But it took her time. If the young woman quickly pierced on stage, passing through the Norwegian National Theater Academy, Renate Reinsve made his first steps in the cinema at Joachim Trier In Oslo, August 31in 2011. But she will have to wait ten years before the director wrote her the role of life: Julie. She remembers: “I ended up considering stopping. Until Joachim. Until Julie. Until that evening …“Confided Renate Reinsve at first (in number 460 of March 2025). In the evening in question, it is obviously that of July 17, 2021, when the closing ceremony of the Cannes Festival ends. His name then enrolled in the list of the most prestigious cinema competition in the world: “The greatest happiness and the greatest pride of my life.”

Everything has changed for her, on the Croisette. But it’s still with Joachim Trier that we find her today, for Sentimental value. Renate embodies an actress who, with her sister, sees her father in her life – a recognized filmmaker – in the aftermath of the death of their mother. A serious and bright work in which Trier explores family ties and artistic heritage. And the director is full of praise about his actress:

“I find that there are not many interesting people to film in the world than Renate.”

Real filmmaker’s muse, Renate Reinsve thus told us his vision of the profession: “Being an actress is looking for the truth and being as honest as possible at all times.” And she tries to take example on her model, the Frenchwoman Isabelle Huppert, “My favorite actress in the world!” Besides, she always dreams of shooting in French: “I learned to speak French alone during my theater studies. I even asked my agent to contact certain French directors. Who knows?”she smiles. For the time being, no tricolor project is signed, but the Norwegian is nonetheless very courted from her CANNOIS.

First, she received an avalanche of romantic comedy scripts, which she took care to refuse: “Because it is an extremely complex genre to write and everything seemed a little bland after Joachim’s film.”

But Hollywood still makes her sweet eyes. And Renate Reinsve has already taken the plunge by signing with A24 to play in A Different Manfaced with Sebastian Stanseduced by a scenario between Charlie Kaufman and David Lynch. We will still find her against Stan in Fjordsigned social drama of the Romanian filmmaker Cristian Mungiuscheduled for 2026 in theaters.

Because Renate Reinsve does not want to get caught up in the American machine and holds in European cinema:

“My acting heart remains Norwegian and it is first in Europe that I want to work. Yes, I declined roles in big films. I can’t participate in a project just because it is big. “

However, Hollywood – its stars, its budgets, its adulated directors – seems to be the next destination of Renate Reinsve. Last year, she already embodied Carolyn Polhemus, the victim in the heart of Presumed innocent in a step of two scorching with Jake Gyllenhaalfor Apple. And this summer, she embarks on science fiction and films with Chiwetel Ejiofor A big genre film, The Backroomsstill for A24. While waiting for the beautiful projects of the big names in American cinema to reach him.

At 37, Renate Reinsve is not in a hurry. Despite the rustles that intensify around her, she advances at her own pace: “Yes, there was pressure after Julie And I knew I was expected at the turn. I had moments of doubt, fear, but never to the point of losing control. “ And add:

“A tray is not a place that worries me, on the contrary: this is where I forget my worries. My mind never wanders. This is the place where I feel best.”

Sentimental value, by Joachim Trier, to see at the cinema currently.