Guest of Anne-Élisabeth Lemoine on the set of “It’s yours”Isabelle Carré reunites with her sidekick Bernard Campan
during the promotion of the film And maybe morein theaters April 3. An actor with whom she has already toured twice —Remember beautiful things And The tasting— and even shared the stage in the theatrical version of this film. A complicity which undoubtedly encouraged her, more confident than ever, to open up about the depression which marred her adolescence.
“Isabelle, if you became an actress it’s because you were bad at dancing” says the host before broadcasting an archive of the show Culture broth dating from 1992, in which the actress d‘Anna Mthen aged 21, explains to Bernard Pivot having dreamed of being a dancer but being bad at it : “One day I did a show, I found myself with some dancers and suddenly people were applauding. I collapsed in tears, I couldn’t do anything anymore […] Afterwards I stopped the dance because I saw that it wasn’t that but I saw that the scene was still quite grandiose” said the young Isabelle Carré to the journalist.
Saved by another actress
Back on the set, it is an emotional actress who confides more about this period, not without having first noted the striking resemblance of her daughter with the one she was in the archive: “Yes, I stopped dancing and it was very, very hard. I had depression at 14. Even more serious than that since I didn’t want to live anymore in fact”, with a trembling voice, in front of the guests and the chroniclers equally overwhelmed by his story, she says she was even interned in a child psychiatric hospital.
It is also within the walls of this institute that another actress will come to her aid: “I saw Romy Schneider in A Woman at Her Window and I told myself that I was going to sign up for a theater class. I signed up for this class and I felt good there” relates the fifty-year-old before concluding: “You see, emotions that overflow all the time, it’s embarrassing in life. And then suddenly, on stage, I was told “no it’s okay, it’s ok and even it’s nice” so phew , a place where we can overflow”. Isabelle Carré is proof that failure can give rise to a wonderful vocation!