The actor-director was in the Senate this Tuesday, where he took part in a debate on disability and his film, the ninth most viewed feature film in French cinema with 10.7 million spectators.
Director Artus announced on Tuesday his desire to create inclusive holiday centers for people with disabilities, in line with the historic success of his film A little something extra.
“I’m setting up my foundation. The goal is that ‘A little something extra’ holiday centers exist,” Artus told the press upon his arrival at the Senate, where he was taking part in a debate on disability and his film, the ninth most viewed feature film in the history of French cinema with 10.7 million spectators since its release in May.
“We are thinking about it. I would like there to be a mix. I would like there to be able-bodied young people with young people with disabilities, because I think that the more we are mixed, the more that will become commonplace,” he continued.
“We are already looking for locations. Afterwards, there will be work (…) I would like it to go quickly,” he said, wanting accessible and “beautiful” premises: “ I want there to be a real Club Med, luxury hotel feel (…) I want us to stop rhyming the medical with the gloomy.”
“We are on the right path”
Then speaking in the Senate in front of the Minister Delegate in charge of People with Disabilities, Charlotte Parmentier-Lecocq, appointed a few days after the other government ministers, Artus quipped: disability, “we have trivialized it since we forget to even appoint ministers to this position! So we are on the right path!
A little something extraArtus’ directorial debut, claims to laugh with disabled people and not at their expense. Around ten amateur actors with disabilities respond to the cast of professionals, including Clovis Cornillac and Artus, who play two little thugs hidden in the middle of a summer camp for young people with mental disabilities.
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