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Kad Merad: "This role will probably pursue me"

2021-08-31T14:54:31.954Z


INTERVIEW - In Emmanuel Courcol's film Un triomphe, the interpreter of Baron Noir plays an actor who is deeply involved in a theater workshop in prison. A way for him to return to his youthful passion.


Light shirt, three-day beard and hat screwed on his head, Kad Merad appears as himself, smiling, affable, cheeky, in this Parisian café overlooking the Saint-Eustache church.

He already knows that his role in

A triumph

by Emmanuel Courcol will stick to his skin.

He explains it bluntly.

LE FIGARO.

- Do you remember how this project started?

Kad MERAD.

- It

all started with a meeting.

Director Emmanuel Courcol, whose first film I liked

Cease-fire

, contacted me.

He had liked seeing me in the

Black Baron

series

, and imagined me playing the role of Etienne in his next film.

I found the approach interesting.

Often, the problem with directors for me is that they are not curious enough!

Not all, of course ...

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Where did this first meeting take place?

Home.

At the time, I lived in the 6th arrondissement and my apartment overlooked the Luxembourg Gardens.

Emmanuel, who comes from the theater, told me about his film, specifying

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Source: lefigaro

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