Camille Cottin’s “low ceiling” apartment on the Grands Boulevards

Well known for her roles in the comedy series Asshole on Canal + and in the sitcom Ten PercentCamille Cottin returns to the cinema, on November 6, in the film Three Friends by Emmanuel Mouret. Alongside India Hair and Sara Forestier, she plays Alice, one of the three main characters. Some time ago, she revealed her interior to Géraldine Sarratia for the podcast The Taste of M. A suburban apartment in the Grands Boulevards district, in which she spent her childhood. “I grew up on rue Montmartre, right next to a joke store whose window I absolutely wanted to look at on my way to school; I still see her today with my daughter. » A lively neighborhood to which she is very attached, and wanted to return. “I like this family mix, my daughter's friends meet in the square, it's really nice and at the same time, there are all these bars, these restaurants… In the evening, it's lively, there are lots of young people on the street. »

At her house, — “I tidied up because you were coming, so as is, it doesn’t look like me!” “, she jokes — she describes her living space as warm. “It's a suburban apartment so not Haussmann-style, low ceilings, overlooking the courtyard… you could say that it's walled up, at the same time I like to hear the neighbor play the piano, when the windows are open… that doesn't I don't mind, it has a little Italian side that I like. » Accustomed to lively places, Camille Cottin spent her adolescence in London where she remembers a life of meetings, parties and extravagances. In Paris, she confides that she cannot organize parties at home precisely because of the isolation and the neighborhood. “But for that there is the cellar…”she smiled.

Its eclectic decoration combines photographs of feminist collages, books by Martin Parr and works by his father, an artist. “There, we are surrounded by nine small frames which each represent a skeleton. My father was an artist but he also renovated apartments, worked in cinemas where he painted skies…” Her mother, whom she describes as nomadic, “goes to India every year to meet tribes and settled in Puglia six years ago”. In her office, she gathered ” all [ses] weird price » : its crystal globes, its Alpe d’Huez prize « hyper moche », she laughs. Among her inspirations, she likes to cite Charlotte Perriand and Le Corbusier, of whom she particularly appreciates the Cité Radieuse in Marseille, which touched her during her visit. “It’s simple, focused on the essentials, but the choice of materials and colors is cheerful. Simple but warm, and turned towards others. » Like the actress, concludes Géraldine Sarratia.