The actress Mary Torretondaughter of Philippe Torreton, is starting a new project on stage alongside her mother Anne-Marie Etienne. The mother takes her daughter to the Poche Montparnasse theater, from Tuesday to Saturday 9 p.m., Sunday 3 p.m. in a play by author Georges Feydeau, But don’t walk around naked. The two women met our colleagues from Parisian.
Marie Torreton decided to enter the profession for the first time under the guidance of her mother. A situation that she has long avoided to flee the comparison. “Having artist parents has both advantages and disadvantages when you take over. At first I felt it more like a weight, I was afraid of not being up to my father” confided the young woman. A burden that her mother quickly understood: “Marie greeted on stage at 3 years old, with me too, she felt that this was going to be her life very early. At 13, she said ‘I will be an actress’, but he had to find confidence. She had this fear of comparison.“
This need to get away from the parental gaze, Marie expresses it clearly: “It did me good to start on my own, I really wanted the first steps in this profession to be far from them, by myself. .” And today, this choice seems to have paid off since her mother is admiring: “Everything is complicated in the theater and Marie knew how to listen to her rhythm to find her way, I’m quite proud of her. She has a formidable understanding of the text, he notes again, amazed. She wrote a version of Antigone, I was sawed.”
After having made her way alone, the actress is now delighted to find her mother in an artistic context. This last one is just as much:It’s a great emotion, breathes this one. It starts from a mother-daughter love, from a desire to work together, from the fact that we assume to do it as a family. We never blame a notary for taking over his father’s office or a butcher for taking over the butchery…“
This family passion for comedy, Anne-Marie Etienne did not fail to note it: “I directed Philippe [Torreton] in the cinema and in the theatre, and Marie has, like her father, a kind of immediacy of acting, a straight acting without frills“enthused the mother and director.