It’s a squeaking and shifted comedy… It’s also a criticism of the growing place of television nowdays, and also of fiction which invades our everyday life, at the point it becomes reality itself.
I met Benoît Ameil thanks to La Maison du Film Court.
Very well… Because it’s the first time a director, without seeing me playing, seemed decided to give me a part. Benoît told me that he wanted an actor with a original face to play the father. Of all the actors applications he had received, he had only retained mine… So he asked me to pass an audition in order to confirm his choice. I have to admit I’ve been caught by this story since the first line I red. This part appears to me like an obviousness. I was ready top get it whatever it takes…
We rehearsed a lot before the shooting, we discussed on the characters, their vision of the couple… During the repetitions, Benoît took account of all our acting propositions, while telling us with precision, what he wanted and cared about in terms of direction. This essential work of actor/director collaboration enabled us to keep the best and to refine it together.
It’s an incredible meeting, we have developed in a very few time a great complicity. We were over the same wave-length, from the very beginning, which enabled us to advance much more quickly in work. Aude has an extraordinary generosity, and that was an happiness to have her as a partner.
he father I play loves his wife more than all. So much that he’s ready to face the worst to enable his couple to resist. He sees the “love affair” of his wife with Georges Clooney like an anecdotic thing. He’s upset but he doesn’t do anything to end it. And when reality turns into a nightmare, rather than seeing there a desperate s.o.s. launched by his wife, he prefers to deny the reality of his couple, which is not good, and to act in spite of reason. This father never faces problems, he’d rather clog cracks and think that the things will end up going better… A bit like his wife, he lives in a bubble…
