The meeting can take place in a hotel, on our premises or after a photo shoot for the front page of “Télérama”. Sometimes it comes naturally, and then sometimes it’s more unexpected. But always successful. The proof with these nine interviews which marked our year.
By the video service
Published on December 30, 2024 at 6:09 p.m.
Jodie Foster : “When women arrived on set, it changed everything”
She announces it straight away: “I have 58 years of career behind me. » Because Jodie Foster has been working since the age of 3, first in commercials, then at Disney. Before meeting Martin Scorsese and playing opposite De Niro in Taxi Driver then to win a first Oscar at 26. As she takes on the lead role in the final season of True Detective, last February, she looked back on five key films of her career in perfect French, with generosity, perspective and intelligence.
Émilie Tronche: “At first, Samuel looked like a rock with hair”
In the editorial office, the success was unanimous. We loved it Samuel, this animated mini-series from Arte. We just as enjoyed meeting Émilie Tronche, the creator of this grumpy, dreamy CM2 student and very good dancer. In this interview, she tells us that, to be as fair as possible, she relied on her childhood memories and attended a school trip with the students of her mother, a CM2 teacher. “Every time I tell myself that I am a thousand miles from the truth of what a child is, because they are always full of surprises,” she nuances.
Zaho de Sagazan: “I would say to the Zaho de Sagazan of a year ago: “Take a big sleep, my girl, and don’t be afraid””
In March 2023, she was on the front page of Telerama and was preparing to release his first album. Since then, she has performed a series of concerts, and La Symphonie des éclairs is certified platinum. We therefore wanted to see Zaho again a year later, in April 2024, and to take stock with the singer, to look back on this whirlwind year, its highs, its lows, its new encounters, its progress and its expectations. First observation? “I’m already thinking that I’m wearing exactly the same costume. »
Chiara Mastroianni plays her father in “My Marcello” : “I felt like I was putting on a superhero costume!”
In The Sky of Nantes, the play written and directed by Christophe Honoré, Chiara Mastroianni played Claudie, his aunt. In My Marcello (in competition at the Cannes Film Festival), she plays her father, Marcello Mastroianni (“Or rather a ghost of my father”, she corrects). Is it better to entrust your family to a director who has already entrusted his to you? « Oui, she replies, this film could not have seen the light of day without The Sky of Nantes and without the six films we made together. “.
Denis Lavant and his cult scene in “Bad Blood” : “This race changed my life”
A few weeks after the remarkable interpretation of Modern Love by Zaho de Sagazan, during the opening ceremony of the Cannes Film Festival, we meet Denis Lavant on the occasion of the release of It’s not me, by Leos Carax. Denis Lavant and Leos Carax, it’s a story that has lasted for forty years now (and six collaborations). Back then, in five madeleines, over four decades of cinema. And obviously the racing scene of Bad blood, to the soundtrack of David Bowie.
Laurent Lafitte, Patrick Mille, Bastien Bouillon: the bastards of “Monte-Cristo”
Of this trio, Marie Sauvion said, in the face-to-face meeting devoted to Comte de Monte Cristo : “Every time we see them, we have the impression that a little voice goes “niark niark niark”. » It must be said that these three actors are absolutely cynical and take pleasure in playing real scoundrels. The perfect opportunity to ask them this question: How do you play a bastard?
Gaël Faye: “I already feel old because the world I knew no longer exists”
He didn’t think he would write about Rwanda again, he had another project in mind, but last September, eight years later Small Country, the pair Jacaranda second novel by the Franco-Rwandan author, awarded the Renaudot prize this fall.
In this interview, Gaël Faye tells how a society is rebuilt after the unspeakable genocide. And how he, as a writer, finds his place in this country – where he now lives with his partner and their daughters – with this need to pass on to new generations and break silences.
Catherine asked: “I have always been wary of seductress roles in cinema”
The actress confides that she has wanted to play in an Alain Guiraudie film for a long time: “I had seen all his films, she specifies. All his characters are on the verge of madness, that’s what I like about him. » In Mercyshe is therefore Martine, a central character of this small Aveyron village. Madness is also at the heart of the character of Marguerite, by Xavier Giannoli, which earned her the César for best actress in 2016.
Guiraudie, Giannoli… Catherine Frot has always navigated between very different styles and genres: “My place in French cinema is strange”, she admits. But her enthusiasm, last May, when we met her in Cannes, was intact.
