Many apprentice actors take courses where they learn to play Racine and Corneille, before finding themselves filming commercials while licking yoghurt lids.
This observation is not that of Rebecca Manzoni, but the lucid one of Alison Wheeler. She took lessons, among students inhabited by the classical repertoire, while she praised other authors such as Florence Foresti, Les Nuls or lesconnus. So she started writing. Her pen took her to television, in “Daily“, on the radio, in “The Original Soundtrack” on France Inter, and today on stage with One night's promise.
This show is the self-portrait of a thirty-year-old, “eligible for egg freezing”. Assessment of a 38-year-old woman on the kid she was, the messed up meetings and the children we don't have, which many people are surprised by.
The day of this interview with Alison Wheeler on Rebecca Manzoni's microphone, she had returned from Tours the same morning and had arranged to meet at her home.
Arrival in Paris, the sketches, the first show
The discussion takes place around tea, by candle light. The actress has lived in Paris for eleven years, the city she came to to practice her profession. “I saw myself in an American film, I saw myself in a room singing in the dark, a producer at the back of the room, with a cigar, and then a shower of light and I was gone.” Alison Wheeler was a little hoping that someone would come and get her to avoid the rakes. A job that she recognizes today is made up of rakes, but that she manages better with experience. She recognizes that it is still necessary protect yourself a little.
It's all about rakes and joy in his first show One night's promisewhere she performs alone, sings and streams videos. Does she censor herself? “Not too much… Evasive answer.” she smiles. She does not consider herself to be a person who knows more than anyone else because on stage or as a public person, she does not feel obliged and has no desire to denounce or defend a subject. “Comedians or authors do not aim to cover every topic. We have the right or even the duty to admit defeat in relation to certain political things that we do not control or certain social phenomena, we are not able to talk about them.“As a mirror to what, talking about a 38-year-old woman, she can.”Yeah, I know that.“
From serious answers to dreamy digressions
The TV series that rocked her adolescence, the attraction of the bad boy, then the nice boy, the absence of children, her developing feminist personality with a bit of an oldshcool tinge, the little inner voice that wonders if she's annoying, the fact that when we make jokes, we don't believe you when you're drowning, the digressions…
From serious answers to dreamy discussions, listen to the humor and poetry of Alison Wheeler on the microphone of Rebecca Manzoni.
Musical programming:
- CHAPPELL ROAN – Good Luck, babe !
- PHILIPPE KATERINE – Totally in the West
