“It was a great experience and there, CRAZY came out and I was recognized. I decided to leave, but I found it boring. » What extraordinary experience is Marc-André Grondin talking about? From his job as a record store at the former HMV Megastore in downtown Montreal.
Episode 1: Marc-André Grondin
In an interview focused on music, Marc-André Grondin looks back on his childhood spent in radio studios, on his all-too-brief career as a rock drummer and on his formerly more complicated relationship with stardom. He also remembers the birth of his friendship with Jean-Marc Vallée.
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Actor Marc-André Grondin with the podcast host Just between you and me Dominic Tardif
Three quotes from our interview
About success
“With each project, I remind myself that it may be my last. Not because I want to draw the plogue, but because someone else can draw it. You can no longer be called, for any reason. There are some who were in all the series when I was little and who have disappeared. […] Success and sustainability are not just a question of talent. It’s a combination of many things. You can make bad choices, be unlucky on certain projects and, at some point, you are given a label and you lose value. »
About CRAZY
“I wasn’t opposed to my success, but I found it phony. Between the day before CRAZY and the day after CRAZY, I was the same person, but suddenly people saw me differently. But they didn’t see me, they projected the film on me. »
About his last meal with Jean-Marc Vallée in 2021
“I found the guy I knew when I was young. He was very deposed. He had whitened a lot. He was writing his movie about John and Yoko in Malibu and he thought he was so lucky. There was something deposited about him that I felt less before. »
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