On August 26, Blanche Gardin will be playing in Erasing History , the latest film by Gustave Kervern and Benoît Delépine, back behind the camera two years after I Fell Good . A first “big role” for the 43-year-old comedian who has often played secondary characters in his career on the big screen. On this occasion, she confided in the Journal du Dimanche .
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The last time we could see Blanche Gardin in theaters was alongside Alain Chabat in Je suis là , a film by Eric Lartigau. It had taken a long time for her to accept a new project, when she was trying to work on her first feature film with Noé Debré. "My schedule finally changed and I gave my consent without even having read the script," she explains to the weekly.
If she had to put the writing of her film on hiatus, she did not hesitate to rewrite certain scenes. “As I have no training as an actress, I find it difficult to play dialogue that I have not written. So I got involved. It was like a game of ping-pong with Benoît and Gustave. I rewrote a lot, but with their consent, without ever forcing my hand, ”she emphasizes.
We think we are free, but we live in a form of voluntary servitude
Blanche Gardin on digital.In Clear History , the characters are grappling with digital issues. Something Blanche Gardin decided to do without in real life. "Neither Tinder, nor Instagram, nor Twitter ... I have a Facebook page to announce a news or promote the Abbé Pierre Foundation, of which I fully support the cause" , she comments, evoking a "rather deep disgust for the world digital ” .
"We think we are free, but we live in a form of voluntary servitude ," she says on the subject. However, she says she was quickly caught by reality when she “smashed” her smartphone on tour: “I was lost. Impossible to know what time my train was, the information was in my smartphone; Ditto for my tickets, and once outside I was unable to find the station, for lack of GPS. ”
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If Blanche has devoted herself more to the cinema lately, she does not forget humor, her first love. “I maintain an ambivalent relationship to the stage. It is a space of absolute truth and total freedom, undoubtedly the only one where one can still express oneself without filter. Writing a text in the morning and letting it go at night to make the audience laugh is a powerful experience , ”she says. Blanche recognizes however that the period is not conducive to creation as far as she is concerned and that she must deal with the white sheet syndrome. To the point of fearing that the "end" has arrived.
I am not for the war of the sexes, treating all men as machos and accusing the courts of never condemning rapists. This is all wrong. I am for the truth, supporting women who suffer, without victimizing themselves
Blanche Gardin at the JDD.Another syndrome, that of the impostor, felt after having pierced late. A success recounted by our colleague Nathalie Simon in La Vie Dreamed by Blanche Gardin , a biography published on August 13 by Éditions de l'Archipel. "I find that we give too much importance to acrobats, and to comedians in particular: today, all the programs have their service comedy, you have to laugh at everything, be funny all the time ... It's not very good sign, ”she regrets despite everything.
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During her young but already important career, Blanche made feminism one of her struggles. But with his own weapons. Thus she notes many divergences between her vision of the cause and a more "binary and Manichean" one . “I am not for the war of the sexes, treating all men as machos and accusing the courts of never condemning rapists. This is all wrong. I am for the truth, to support women who suffer, without victimizing themselves, ” she said. Before concluding: "Being a feminist doesn't prevent me from liking the idea that a guy is different from a woman."
