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Denis Podalydès: "I am a director's flesh"

2022-10-02T18:13:03.779Z


INTERVIEW – The actor plays the title role of King Lear, directed by Thomas Ostermeier. And signs the entry of Shakespeare's play into the repertoire of the French comedy.


Three years after playing Orsino, Duke of Illyria, in

Twelfth Night

under the direction of Thomas Ostermeier, the actor dresses up as a key character in Shakespearean theatre, King Lear.

The 59-year-old member, who finds the German director with obvious pleasure, evokes with passion this role of an 80-year-old man inhabited by madness.

LE FIGARO.

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King Lear

enters the repertoire of the French.

Who is the clever instigator?

Denis PODALYDES

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King Lear

is an idea that Thomas Ostermeier had for a long time and I have the impression that it was refined over the rehearsals of Twelfth

Night or Whatever You Want

, that he staged there in 2018. I remember that he had said spontaneously - I was then on stage with Stéphane Varupenne who was playing the Fool (he also plays the Fool in

Lear

, Editor's note):

"It looks like Lear and his bishop.

I also remember that one evening, on the sidewalk, Thomas asked me if I wouldn't mind playing...

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Source: lefigaro

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