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Cinema: “For 1h30 on stage, I was naive enough to think that I was Claude Monet”, confides Clovis Cornillac
Cinema: “For 1h30 on stage, I was naive enough to think that I was Claude Monet”, confides Clovis Cornillac
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Meeting with Clovis Cornillac, back on stage to perform the title role of the play “Dans les yeux de Monet” at the Théâtre de la Madeleine. It focuses on a specific episode in the life of this painter, that of the lack of inspiration.
Although he may have the name of a frank warrior, Clovis Cornillac is a peaceful man. At the Orangerie museum, in front of the Water Lilies, he evokes In Monet’s eyesa play in which he plays Claude Monet plagued by doubts and lacking inspiration. “I don’t have it. But what must be absolutely terrifying is this nothingness. But when I play, I believe it. For 1h30 on stage, I had the naivety, even the stupidity, to think that I was Claude Monet.”confides the interpreter of the master of impressionism.
The piece also speaks of freedom, of painting, of creating. “I have always associated freedom with autonomy. In fact, as a child, I already wanted to be big. For me, being free meant being autonomous“, continues the actor. Today, he always feels at home when he plays. “I have rarely felt damaged by the job“, he assures.
Watch the full interview in the video above.