When Sylvie Moreau left school, the only auditions she was offered were for the roles of prostitutes.
“I did not understand. You have a perception of yourself. Then all of a sudden, the image that we send back to you, of what we perceive of you, does not correspond at all. It shocked me! The Catholic in me was very shocked,” the actress confided Friday evening to Mélanie Maynard, as part of the show Sweety saltyadding that she was a bit of a tomboy at the time and hadn’t found her femininity or her sex appeal.
It was ultimately her character Catherine, in the sitcom of the same name, which allowed her to tame this part of her.
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Surviving the death of your twin
At the initiative of her twin sister, Nathalie, who died in 2016 at the age of 51 following ovarian cancer, the actress has used her platform for several years to raise awareness of the reality of ovarian cancer. ovarian, a cancer for which there are few diagnostic tools.
“What is extraordinary is that it also gave me a handle on this frightening affair that was actually happening to us. Then I think it helped us both a lot; I don’t just have to feel guilty about living and surviving it; “not just to feel like a victim of the disease,” she stressed.
The actress also confided to her colleague that In a galaxy near youthat she had made, as a teenager, a sort of pact with her sister in the event that one of them left before the other; the survivor would have to live for two.
“Then she reminded me of it in her great generosity. She reminded me of her all on her bed in the last moments, she said: “You and remember eh? From what we said to each other,” she said, indicating that seeing herself age and thinking about herself helped bring her back to reality and life.
Sylvie Moreau has been teaching for several years at the National Theatre School, a school she never wanted to go to because of her fear of auditions.
“I coach students to be confident, not to be afraid. I say, when you leave my class, you will be responsible. You are going to see confidence, you are going to abandon yourself and you are not going to exist because of the eyes of others,” she told Mélanie Maynard.
