After Asterix & Obelix: The Middle Kingdom released in theaters on September 1, 2023, Guillaume Canet returns to the cinema with Acid. But this time, as a “simple” actor. Indeed, in this feature film by Just Philippot, the supposed ex-companion of Marion Cotillard tries to escape an acid rain which is destroying France.
The 50-year-old actor was Anne-Elisabeth Lemoine’s guest on C to you this Tuesday, September 19, 2023 to present the film scheduled in theaters this Wednesday which evokes the climate crisis, but also society adrift. The opportunity for Patrick Cohen to question the evening guest about his political ideas.
“There is a need today to put a label on people. I am simply a citizen, what I vote for is my business. I believe that artists are there first and foremost to entertain people.”Guillaume Canet In #CàVouspic.twitter.com/SAtNxKfSlt
— C to you (@cavousf5) September 19, 2023
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Guillaume Canet regrets being given a label
“You are committed to the causes you have just spoken about but not necessarily a political activist”first noted the journalist from C to you before reminding: “there is a reader of Le Parisien who questioned you last Sunday about your political opinions. You responded to her by quoting Belmondo, Jean-Paul Belmondo your idol, who did not want politics to pollute his acting or his profession as an actor . We found the sequence”.
After broadcasting the tape in which the actor who died on September 6, 2021 confirms Patrick Cohen’s statements, the latter addressed the supposed ex-companion of Marion Cotillard: “You are still more committed than him.” “No, because I’m making a film on a subject in fact. There is a need, today, to stick labels”then retorted the main person concerned.
“People ask me if I’m eco-anxious sometimes. I’ve been told this several times. There’s a need to call people, to lock them in a box. It’s a bit scary”, lamented the 50-year-old actor. Indeed, Guillaume Canet regret “that today we need to put a label on people.” “I am simply a citizen, what I vote is my business. Afterwards, if we are smart, we can still see my political color. But it is true that I believe, as Jean-Paul said, that we do what job to entertain people”, he concluded. If viewers hoped that the actor would reveal his political orientation, it was a failure.
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