This Wednesday, January 22, Guillaume Canet was the guest of Konbini to look back on his journey and the significant moments of his life. During this interview, the director of Small Handkerchiefs confided that he was very brawling in his youth and loved combat sports, as he explained to the journalist.
Guillaume Canet talks about his old struggles
“I did a lot of combat sports. (…) I did judo, I did boxing for 15 years, I did karate, taekwondo” he confided before returning to a memorable memory. “I almost had a real health problem because I got into a fight with a boy at school. At one point, I slammed my head into his stomach, he twisted my neck and he broke two necks and one was not far from the spinal cord so I could have been unwell” he explained. Although this event was significant for him, he no longer remembered the reasons for this altercation. “I don’t know, he must have made fun of me, he must have pissed me off, I don’t know” he said.
He was also asked about the last time he fought. “It was a long time ago on the street in Paris. I found myself in a car with people who were very excited in it and who cornered me against another car, who hadn’t seen me, so I honked the horn. They looked for me a little, it escalated” he remembered.
-Violence, a state that puts him in “absolute discomfort”
He also wanted to explain: “Sometimes you come across people who know how to fight even better than you“. Guillaume Canet concluded on the subject: “It always left me in a state of absolute discomfort, it’s still better to manage it in another way. Sometimes, it can be a relief, but at the same time, it leads to something not so good in human terms afterwards.“
Remember that the actor is starring in the feature film To Life which is present on the Netflix platform.
