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By living lives other than their own, they need
writing to find yourself. Seven personalities evoke this new space of freedom and creation. For the actress, writing was a change in her life.
“I was 27 when I finished my first novel, The Cagewhich I never showed to anyone… Although I wrote every day when I was young, I stopped throughout my thirties, too caught up in cinema. In fact, I think I found in acting another place to express myself. In 2016, I felt a great lack, so I signed up for a writing workshop at Gallimard. I went there every Thursday for three months, and in the process I wrote the first ten pages of Dreamers (Editions Grasset). From that moment on, my whole life changed.
I am currently making my first feature film (the adaptation of Dreamers in the cinema), me who had never projected myself on the other side of the camera.
Above all, I didn’t think I had the right to lead a team, which obviously raises the question of the place that women still give themselves today in the world of work. But why did you wait so long? I really like being directed by a director, but here, finding my language, searching for my words, setting my rhythm, creating my universe… Making my voice heard allowed me to erase all the frustrations felt when I am directed , as if the tracing paper was finally in the right place on the drawing. On the cinema side, I have gained strength, power in my acting. I also love this intimacy, proximity, shared with the reader, whether in a bookstore or at a book fair. There is no mask of an actress, with the costume, the makeup.
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My fourth book is still warm in my head. I can’t wait to get back to it, to sit in a café or at home, on a corner of the kitchen table, rocked or rather jostled by the noise of my three children. But the place where inspiration comes to me best is when I’m on the train, headphones on with repetitive Philip Glass music. I have the impression of blackening the pages at the same pace as the carriages on the rails… At the moment, I am dreaming of a Paris-Marseille, a non-stop round trip, just to pick up my pen again…”
The Game of IfsÉditions Grasset, 2022, is the third novel by Isabelle Carré.
