“I’m stopping cinema,” says Marc Lavoine, who would like to “do theater again”

The singer assures, on franceinfo, Friday, that he enjoyed working with directors like Claude Chabrol, Tony Gatlif and Pierre Boutron.

“I’m stopping cinema“, affirmed, Friday January 3, on franceinfo, Marc Lavoine, author, performer and actor. In addition to his long musical career, he is particularly known for having played the role of Alex in The hearts of mena trilogy directed by Marc Esposito.

“You have to run faster than your friend, do castings. You have to be part of a team, a gang and I don’t have any gang. I have very strong, very close friends, that’s it. is my choice. Cinema is less nourishing today, but maybe that will change because everything else has changed.”he explains. Marc Lavoine believes that it is not “not an actor” more “someone who acts in films to tell stories”.

He emphasizes that he enjoyed working with Claude Chabrol for the film hellreleased in 1994; with Tony Gatlif, director of Freedom (2008); with Pierre Boutron for Fiesta (2005). He also quotes Pierre Schoendoerffer, director of the series Kepler(s) in which Marc Lavoine played the role of Samuel Kepler, a police commander.

Today, the artist “loves Gilles Lellouche very much” Who “makes very good films” more “the places are taken, the casting is done”he continues. “The new generation may do great things, but they don’t need me”concludes Marc Lavoine. If he decides to stop acting, “there is music and then, above all, there is literature” and he would like “good theater again”.