Like Bruce Springsteen in The Promised LandGildor Roy believes in a promised land. What does it look like? A film set or a stage. “There is no place on the planet where I am happier than when I am acting,” he swears. “I am very happy with my family, very happy with my children, but now, I know that I am in my place, that this is what I was meant to do in life. It fills me with happiness.”
Episode 6: Gildor Roy
Back on the small screen in Dumasthe new series by Luc Dionne, Gildor Roy talks about the role that Gaétan and Marc Labrèche played in his discovery of theater, his relationship with Jean Leloup, his possible return to country music and the influential righteousness of his father.
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Actor and musician Gildor Roy
Three quotes from our interview
About the movie The little one and the old one
“Patrice Sauvé, the director, is a Bruce Springsteen fan, and not just any fan. He knows all the words to all the songs. So, I sang him a bit, he finished the song, we were like children. For a whole morning, Patrice directed me with just Bruce Springsteen words. He gave me a song title and I understood what he wanted.”
About his interviews with Jean Leloup
“Musically, he’s someone who borders on genius, a superiorly intelligent guy, but if I had been in his place and all the interviews I did started with: “How are you, Jean, we know it’s not easy to do interviews with you”, you know what, I would have made sure it wasn’t easy! I hosted a show in the summer on Radio-Canada [L’île de Gilidor] and Jean, after his song, came to participate in the culinary column, because he felt really good and he wasn’t treated like a mental patient.”
About the madness of Marc Labrèche
“At 11, we were riding the buses in Montreal and we were speaking a made-up language. We were talking loudly. People would say, ‘Oh my God, what a genius!’ He was always like that! As a little boy, at 11, he was like that.”