The actress is returning to the stage to speak out for other women. Her way of moving from the singular to the universal.
We find her at the end of rehearsals, a cap screwed on her head and tinted glasses which hide her beautiful blue eyes. Strong and fragile, like the women Anne Parillaud plays in I wouldn’t have gotten there if…, the theatrical adaptation of Annick Cojean’s book which contains around thirty interviews with inspiring women. Eight were selected for this show directed by Anne Bouvier, in which the actress shares the stage with comedian Laura Laune.
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Madame Figaro. – Have some women touched you more than others? ?
Anne Parillaud. – I grabbed Virginie Despentes for the radicalism and freedom of this writer. She has seen it all, experienced it all or almost: drug addict, prostitute, raped, alcoholic, punk, rocker, straight, lesbian. After such exploration, his subterranean knowledge of the soul is rich and legitimized. And I found myself, among others – because they all touched me – in the actress, producer, UN Women ambassador, Nicole Kidman. In her speech and her vision as an actress, her need to exist within a parallel artistic world, her passion for psychology, and her way of living her feminism, as well as her origin.
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These words are very strong, of an assumed feminism…
An assumed feminism but without aggression. He is intelligent, fluid, deep, fair. And their sincere, moving, courageous, sometimes funny, sometimes violent words. Playing these women is the ideal setting to allow me to establish a feminist position. I have difficulty fitting into a reality, I need an interface to express myself, through roles or more recently writing, with The Abused. There is a depth in these texts, a thickness which corresponds to the experiences of women, to their childhood, but also resonates powerfully in my heart. There is no destruction of man. The idea is to reformat relationships to achieve equality in all points of view between men and women.
There is the metaphor of the cup of tea. Can you tell us about it? ?Emma Thompson compares consent to a cup of tea. If you offer tea to someone and they say ‘I’d love to’, you put the kettle on. When you come back with the cup, the person no longer wants it or has fallen asleep. You are not going to force or wake her to drink it. She is free to change her mind.
My turn to ask you the question : “I wouldn’t have gotten there if…”
I wrote a short text because we were asked to answer this question on stage. Here it is: “I wouldn’t have gotten there if I hadn’t decided to move forward by crawling, limping, against the flow, whatever. Leaving behind a destructive family and a chaotic childhood, throwing myself passionately into cinema, theater and writing. To free myself from everything that was stifling life in me and find my happiness in the interstices of my gaps, my flaws, my unsaid things and my melancholy. It gave me the rage to be and to do.”
I wouldn’t have gotten there if I hadn’t decided to move forward, crawling, limping, against the flow.
Anne Parillaud
You haven’t been on stage since the success of Winner. your state of mind ?
With theater, it’s a love-hate relationship. I miss him physically, organically: the desire is immense, even addictive, to be on stage, to commune with the audience. But I’m terrified.
I wouldn’t have gotten there if… by Annick Cojean, until 1er June at the Théâtre Antoine, in Paris. theatre-antoine.com
