Actress
"When
I was asked what I dreamed of as a child, I used to answer, ‘I want to be
happy’. And this is art where I thrived, "says the actress who built her
career between popular cinema and more intimate movies. It took one film, and only one movie, entitled
“She is diabetic, hypertensive and she refuses to die” from director Hakim Noury,
to impose Asmaa Khamlichi as an actress in the world of movies. Asmaa is both
funny and sexy:
"It was an extraordinary
success," she admits. Then she shoots in other films: "Every character I have incarnated is
precious to me and has required preparation and concentration. In cinema, as in dance, one is transported by a
positive and liberating energy. But she is lucid on the place of women in Moroccan cinema: "It is time
to offer them more major roles. Small, a doctor diagnosed in her a double scoliosis and advised her to do
sports. Asmaa
Khamlichi now listens to her body: "It is an art of living, a state of
mind”. She first became a gymnast and participated in professional competitions
before practicing yoga and surfing. But Asmaa Khamlichi is also a stage girl. Enlisted at the Conservatory of Casablanca, she
is enthusiastic about music, theater but especially dance that allows her to
combine her love of sport with that of art. She joined the ballet theater of choreographer Lahcen
Zinoun. The stage
galvanizes her. By
embodying a multitude of characters, she allows herself to be crossed by
emotions, carried by the texts, intoxicated by poetry. Today, Asmaa Khamlichi is a fulfilling woman:
"I feel like being a citizen of the world. I lived several years in Florida and Italy but I
am a Moroccan woman who loves her country, and who knows her sufferings and her
faults. "