sent Special France Isabelle Monart
DEAUVILLE
Sand in hair, Raphael comes a nothing behind our appointment. But he has the best excuse in the world: he went to play on the beach with her son 15 months and azure blue eyes ... If
in Deauville, because he is a member of the jury revealed that Cartier, after ten days of the festival, will present his award to the most beautiful ... revelation. Yes, but why him? "Because I just shot a movie, maybe," he laughs. "Anyway, I am very happy to be here ..."
Because it is a movie you like ?
"Yes. I was glad to Cannes too, but we do not ask me to ..."
How was this first experience in film?
"Okay, really. But it was an accident: I met Lelouch in a restaurant the next day, he tried to reach me, but I had to change phone. So he has a few days find me. I think he offered me the role because he thought I stuck well to the character: a man of the 40s, I was a bit scruffy. In short, I had the mouth of the second role which he thought. " You will not
had never proposed film before?
"If, full of times but had never tried it. They were scenarios that I did not, or there were some timing issues. I was not confident enough, or this n 'was perhaps not the time for me. I was too in control. "
Cinema is abandonment?
"At bottom, right? We must trust in the director, thinking that the guy will do something good ..."
must have some confidence, too!
"Yes, but that I knew nothing. He told me not to worry, that everything would be all alone. And I believed him. In the end, there was when even small things to do (laughs). But it was really wonderful. It helped me a lot of things, including music, I was reconnected with buried feelings. For the stage too, it helped me to rediscover things. "
is a musical film?
" Oh, I do not know. But in my case, there is nothing musical in what I did. I do not sing in the movie. I have just one dance scene, in which I was not particularly comfortable, either. "
That must be exciting to learn a new profession ...
" It's very nice. I lived beautiful moments. And it's very exciting to learn things that we do not know how. "
It'll make you say yes more often in the future?
" Maybe. I always look at the scenarios with a lot of attention, anyway. There, I was offered two other things that are very cool and I hope it will be possible. "