GLASGOW’s great and good will gather for the Scottish premiere of a hit French movie on Friday.

But its young star won’t be on the red carpet in her home city – as she is too young for the 15 rating.

Gabby Rose, from the south side, made the movie when she was twelve and after a whirlwind two years of glamorous locations, meet-ups with Hollywood stars and lots of press attention, she is delighted The World is Yours (Le monde est à toi) will finally be screened in Scotland.

“It’s amazing – even though I’m officially not allowed to see it,” she pouts.

“But I’m so excited people in Glasgow will get to see it. It’s a really good movie.”

Romain Gavras’s film stars Karim Leklou as a former drug dealer whose plans to go straight and set up a business in Algeria are derailed after his mother, played by Isabelle Adjani, blows his ill-gotten gains at the gambling table.

Gabby, who is now 14, plays Brittany, the daughter of a drug dealer played by Sam Spruell, an English actor known for movies such as The Hurt Locker, Taken 3 and Snow White and the Huntsman.

“People thought we were father and daughter, we got on so well,” grins Gabby. “He was the nicest person you could ever meet.

“Brittany is a bit of a spoiled brat, used to getting her own way all the time. Her father uses her, in a way, but she gets her own back. She is clever and a bit mouthy.”

Gabby laughs: “We are a lot alike. She was fun to play.”

Gabby lives in Newton Mearns with her parents, Angie and Pete, two older sisters Tami, 19 and Hannah, 17, and five dogs.

“When I had to go to London for my audition, the whole family, dogs and all, came with me,” she says. “We stayed in a dog hotel and got to meet so many important people, and I was really scared, but I just went for it.”

Gabby is a keen actress and singer, used to performing in local amateur dramatic productions in Glagsow theatres – she is appearing as one of the narrators in Harlequin’s production of Joseph and his Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat next month.

Appearing in a movie was a world away from “normal life”, she says.

“I was treated like a princess everywhere I went,” she smiles. “I had no idea the film would be so massive in France, and around the world. I went to the premiere in Paris – honestly, no words. It was unreal.

“I hadn’t even flown on a fancy plane like that before – it had always just been Easyjet.”

She adds: “I went to Cannes - people were coming up to me in the street and recognising me from the movie. It was totally weird.”

Gabby’s mum Angie spotted a Facebook post calling for a 12-year-old Scottish girl to audition for a part in a French movie.

“We applied just to see what would happen really,” says Gabby. “I had to send over a picture, and do an audition in Glasgow, then go down to London for the screen test audition.

“When we got a phonecall to say I had the part, I just went wild.”

Gabby, who is a pupil at Mearns Castle High, filmed all of her scenes in Benidorm.

“I didn’t have to speak French,” she says. “All my dialogue was in English. I had three and a half weeks off school, which I wasn’t complaining about.”

She adds: “Going back to normal life has been strange. I’ve always loved performing – I’m the outspoken one who likes to get up on stage and sing.

“I want to act when I leave school, maybe study it first, but I really want to do more films and television.

“I have had a strange two years but I’ve absolutely loved it – it’s been an adventure.”

The World is Yours is at the GFT on March 1 and its UK-wide release date is April 26.