His first time in the cinema
Discovering cinema was a decisive moment. My oldest memory of cinema is Bambi, I must have been 5 years old. I think it’s my first time going to the cinema and the film is very violent. I am afraid and at the same time, I am totally fascinated by these immense images which move and which provoke emotions. It really stuck with me, it was a bit traumatic for a while. But it is with hindsight, at the time, it is only emotion and sensation. But in retrospect, I realize that it was trauma, but not necessarily negative trauma. Anyway, something that was going to stay. I felt like this was where it was happening, that real life was fiction. So I was badly off.
Her first casting
In France Soir, there was an ad that they were looking for a teenager for a movie. This is the first time I have been testing. I was not an actor at all, I had no equipment, so I sent a small Photo Booth. I passed the tests and got caught. It was a TV movie with Michael Lonsdale and I had to get my parents to sign the authorization to be able to shoot. So I had to tell them that I wanted to shoot. At the time, I didn’t even dare to say it, it seemed so impossible to me, I was afraid that we would find it ridiculous or pretentious, I don’t know. I would never have dared to speak about it but there, I was obliged to say it.
His one-man-show
It was a seizure of power, a seizure of freedom. I had been an actor for a long time, I was 35 years old. I worked regularly, it was going quite well but I did not have real freedom of choice in my projects. I had a form of frustration, I had the impression that the roles that I landed and in which I was imagined were quite reductive compared to what I had in mind as a universe, as a sense of humor.
The first time I played it, the sketches were a bit too long, I hadn’t rehearsed too much, three quarters of the room was filled with friends. So it works well, but I was not sure that they were very objective. And afterwards, when I really started to play in a small 100-seat hall at the Petit Palais des Glaces, it was hard because no one knew me. People came because there were places at 5 euros on BilletRéduc, so I had eight people in the room and they did not understand what they were doing there. So at first it was hard but then it worked. But there was a month and a half, a month, where every night, you had to hang on.
