“We no longer play like that today
,” observes the honorary member of the Comédie-Française.
Laughing blue gaze, alert from the height of her 85 springs, arms raised towards the ceiling of the bar of a grand hotel, Geneviève Casile emphatically declaims the lines of Sarah Bernhardt,
"queen of attitude and princess of gesture"
, said Edmond Rostand.
The two actresses have the same slender silhouette and the same bubbling energy.
But if the "Divine" had recourse to cosmetic surgery, the second accepts the passage of years with serenity:
"It's beautiful an aging face"
, she observes.
Before extracting from his bag a biography of the famous tragedian and recounting the journey of the one Victor Hugo called the "Golden Voice".
Geneviève Casile interpreted Sarah Bernhardt in 2019 at the Princess Grace Theater in Monaco in a staging by Pascal Vitiello.
Redhead wig on the head -
"Sarah Bernhardt has had all the hair colors imaginable"
, points out the actress -, loose…
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