Red hair, glitter jumpsuit and swirls of smoke. It comes down like that Trinidad, with a lot of glitter and daring in a setting worthy of a cabaret. With in the background the portraits of Françoise Dorléac, Romy Schneider and all the fine flower of the actresses who make us turn the head since adolescence. The one who scoured the ways of pleasure on the air at RMC in the company of Brigitte Lahaie quickly announces the color of her only on stage "Pour que tu t'aimes encore" at the Comédie Bastille. "For a long time, I doubted myself so I wanted to be someone else," she asserts in front of the black and white photographs.
Let it resonate this sentence for a long time before a predominantly female audience! But here she shifts to her childhood and her mother, whose eternal feminine "Judeo-Christian" approached the first version of Olivia Newton-John in "Grease". The one with the first-of-class look. "Which one are you going to have?" », She inquires, brandishing two pictures of the actress, before and after her transformation into an ultra-sexy blonde.
At each age, his idol
We listen to it, lulled by its icons worshiped, venerated, to forge, to identify. At each age its idol. A way for her, too, to grow. Like us, she dreamed that she was "Joe", girls of Doctor de March. True to her line, she disguises certain representations of women in passing. As when it tells the story of the Barbie doll created in 1962, with a sexualized body, which will only have its "navel" in 2002. And to remind, amused, that the inventor "named them by the first name of his children. So it’s been 58 years since Barbie hit her brother. "
We laugh of course, a little sawn sometimes by its machine gun output but, above all, we learn some crisp anecdotes that are worth the detour. “73% of women cheated on their husbands because they did not do enough housework. Surprising, isn't it? Even if going up to the curtain, it is more convenient to wash the ceiling. They say to themselves: Since you are taking it like a sleeve, let's go find other sleeves . An ode to freedom. Assumed.
EDITOR'S NOTE: 3/5
"So that you still love yourself" until March 29, 2020, at 7 p.m. on Sundays, at the Comédie Bastille in Paris (11th). Places: from 10 to 32 euros.