Romain Duris talks about his acting profession

For the preparation of his character in the new event film The Three Musketeers: D’Artagnan, Romain Duris went through several stages before playing Aramis on screen. The first is to get into the character, capturing its essence. “I try to concentrate on what man he was, as far as we have elements on his intimate life, on his type of personality, what is inside him and what type no one would be today”, expresses the actor. For him, piercing the shell of this character is essential to bring it to life and embody it.

Preparing for your role also involves physical preparation. In this swashbuckling film, well-honed training is a must. “Each had a fairly substantial training of almost five months depending on the level. It takes time for it to become natural again, for you to have a good posture, since Aramis is someone who pays attention to his appearance. So it’s a lot of practice, but that too, it’s magic to work on that”. As for the sword exercises, Romains Duris emphasizes the great concentration shown by the actors during filming for these scenes filmed in sequence, without cutting the camera: “Each intervenes at specific times and we must not mess up the work that the other has done just before”.

One character over another

If Romain Duris is currently illustrated in the role of Aramis, the actor is known for other interpretations: Waiting for Bojangles, eiffel Or The Spanish inn just to name a few. In each role, the actor seeks “what’s new” and what he has never exploited before. “It makes me want. It’s very instinctive, for me, the choices to go on projects, there are not even words”. The risks he has never attempted, characters he does not know or the vision and cinema of a director are elements that guide the choice of the actor: “There, I don’t think that much, I say to myself: ‘I’m following you, I want to see, we’ll see’. So there’s a mix of all that that means that when I close a scenario, I spend time weighing the pros and cons.”.

And when the actor chooses to play a role, his character sometimes follows him in his personal life: “It is true that it is difficult to cut that at the end of the day. But I always leave it open. I think there is a way to close, but I don’t find it unpleasant that it takes place in us, that it lasts and that it lives in us for three months”, confides the actor.