By Elsa Girard-Basset | Web journalist
An actress much appreciated by the French public for her colorful characters and for her unmistakable outspokenness, Mathilde Seigner is a sure value in French cinema. However, her aficionados have noticed that she has been a little less present in recent years. A decision she made due to developments in France that she doesn’t like at all…
Recently showing in “Bungalow 21”, the ambitious play by Benjamin Castaldi on the love triangle between Yves Montand, Simone Signoret and Marilyn Monroe, Mathilde Seigner confirmed, if necessary, that she was capable of playing almost everything on screen as well as on stage. Because in 30 years of career, the actress has built quite a CV.
In addition to her pure talent, the mother of a teenager named Louis also seduced the French with her outspokenness. A characteristic that she has, however, abandoned a little, to become much more consensual. So why ? The main interested party answered this question with frankness and a certain annoyance.
Mathilde Seigner tired of permanent controversies in France
Guest of Laurent Delahousse in 2019, the Parisian by birth was questioned about her reduced presence in the media. And his response, shared by many French people, was clear:
I’ve given fewer interviews because… It’s the time. Today, we can no longer say anything. It played tricks on me (…) I was told: “shut up”.
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I’m no longer interested in doing TV, because we’re constantly being bullied. People tell me: “You shouldn’t say that,” or: “If someone asks you a question about that, don’t say anything.” And so it no longer interests me.
Mathilde Seigner is not the only personality to have been moved by this decline in freedom of expression. José Garcia, for example, also went there with an even more virulent tirade on the subject.
In the case of the actress and sister of Emmanuelle Seigner, the situation is all the more regrettable since it is precisely this honesty and this “rough form” side which seduced the French about her. And she knows it:
Laurent Delahousse: “Except that’s the one we like? Is it this French woman who, ultimately, was close to everyone by saying what she thought? »
Mathilde Seigner: “That’s the one (…) Besides, when I present the film in the provinces, people say to me: “You don’t say anything anymore, it’s a shame”. But we’re careful about what we say, we’re in control, and I don’t find that very funny.
If in 2019, Mathilde Seigner already found that freedom of expression was being undermined by all-out controversies, we imagine that her opinion has absolutely not changed since then… quite the contrary! It therefore remains for the actress to express herself more freely, which she prefers (by far) to television sets and the problems that arise from them. too often for his taste…
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