Every day, a personality invites herself into the world of Élodie Suigo. Today, the actress, Laure Calamy. This Wednesday, March 29, 2023, she is showing in the film “Good conduct” by Jonathan Barré, with Tchéky Karyo, Grégoire Ludig, David Marsais and Thomas VDB.
Laure Calamy is a playful, inhabited, embodied actress. Revealed in 2015 in the TV series Ten percent broadcast on France 2 and Netflix, she received the César for best actress for comedy Antoinette in the Cevennes by Caroline Vignal in 2021. This Wednesday, March 29, 2023, she is showing the film Good behavior by Jonathan Barré, with Tchéky Karyo, Grégoire Ludig, David Marsais of course, Thomas VDB.
franceinfo: In Good behavior, you play a trainer in a driver’s license point recovery center during the day. And you are the one who invented another method to do road safety by turning you into a ‘serial driver’, right?
Laura Calamy: Yes ! The Calamity Jane of bitumen, macadam!
It’s amazing because it feels like this role was written for you.
Well, with my old little girl’s face, I didn’t think that I would be given a role like that! I flashed on the scenario which was not written for me at all and Jonathan Barré sent it to me. I also flashed on this boy with whom shooting was a marvel. It’s a terrific role to play this lonely cowgirl doing justice to herself because her friend got hit by a speeder and then it’s also about someone who can’t come to terms with their grief. That’s what I like. It’s both completely quirky, crazy and at the same time, there are really several registers of cinema.
Little girl, you already knew what you wanted. You were determined to succeed in doing what you wanted to do.
It’s true. Pretty soon because I actually had several people that I loved very much in my family that I lost. I think when you are also faced with death, there is something and you say to yourself: ” It’s now or never. Life goes by very quickly. In an instant.”
I didn’t want to miss out on my life. I really wanted to try my desire. And then if it doesn’t work, you can reinvent yourself all the time.
Laura Calamyat franceinfo
You could have followed in the footsteps of your parents, both in medicine. A nurse mother then a psychologist, a doctor father. But not at all, since he had a friend, Jean-Paul Dubois, who came to the house regularly to talk behind the scenes of his job. Is that the starting point or not?
In any case, it made the thing accessible to me. He was telling about the tours. It fascinated me. What an adventure! Little girl, what I wanted was to go out, to see the world. For me, there is something of the order of care also in the fact of being an actress, because sharing all human feelings, all human questions, yes, we are smugglers and that’s what I like GOOD. The first experiences I had, the first shows I saw in college, I remember, it opened up something very deep in me. It’s always my hope and I even tell myself that if there is only one person in the room on whom the show has this effect, we actors have this effect, so it’s wonderful, it’s is great, it’s won.
We feel that the theater occupies a very important place in this life.
I was, somewhere, born in the theater because it’s 20 years of my life and anyway, I will do it all my life. There, the cinema, I take advantage of it a little because I know less and then they make me proposals that fascinate me. But of course as far as the theater is concerned… Suddenly, I felt useful, I had the impression of being in the world. I say : ” to be in the world“because it was the play that Olivier Py had written for us, he said:” To be in the world as not being there“, I found this title magnificent.