“There are years when you want to do nothing”the phrase is from the author-musician-poet, Pierre Barouh. We come across it when entering Philippe Rebbot's house, he wrote it in chalk on a board. Philippe Rebbot modeled his life on the works of others. By this I mean that songs, books, photos or drawings allowed him to improvise a way of living.
His family life was the subject of a fiction that he co-wrote with Romane Bohringer. It's called Blurred Love.
For ten days, Philippe Rebbot has been on the bill for On a threadfirst film of Order of Kateb.
For this morning's meeting, head to Montreuil, east of Paris. The metro station is called Croix de Chaveau and I hold an open microphone at the entrance of a building not far away. There are vinyls placed on the floor with Stevie Wonder at the top of the pile, his dog Peter, hidden under the sofa and a collection of poems by Richard Brautigan, next to our cups of Ricoré.
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Talkative to fill the panic of the void
It's not complicated to get Philippe Rebbot to speak, who confesses: “Once I get going, I'm like a diesel. I am shy, then talkative. It goes together. I'm afraid of emptiness, of silence. This is why I speak very quickly, all the time, as I am doing now. It's panic. In front of a camera, it's almost easier than in life, where I'm a little afraid of people. When we're filming, I don't care, it's not me. Well, it's me, but not me. »
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Comedian by chance
Philippe Rebbot started in cinema as an assistant director: “ I loved that, tidying up trucks, laughing with people, making films, fiction… I had no other ambition.” His first role was in Boredom by Cedric Kahn. He replaced for three lines Charles Berling, a person who played a bartender. An experience that was to be the last : “Even though I knew the team, I was so scared. I said to myself: I will never do it again.” Actor, that came later. Today, “being in front of the camera is like skiing, I’m happy when I take off my shoes. I must enjoy it, but it's not obvious. I take care of myself, but in life, I do everything backwards. »
Melancholy since childhood
Philippe Rebbot's parents spoke little to him, but made him listen Georges Moustaki, et Serge Reggiani who have it “constituted » he said. Consequence: “I became melancholic at five years old, when I didn’t even know life. » Reggiani also said that his ambition as an actor was no longer to be an actor, it was to be. For Philippe Rebbot it is an obligation: “ I have no choice. I have no technique. So when I take on a character, I try to be that character. I try to understand it and when it's done well, I succeed and I even see why someone came to look for me. I say to myself: “I know this guy” almost as a spectator. I like actors who give the impression that what they are playing, they have experienced it, they live it, they feel it. »
The rest is to listen…
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