He embodies the last love of Marguerite Duras in the new film by Claire Simon, You only want me. Broadcast in France since Wednesday February 9, 2022, the feature film reveals Swann Arlaud from every angle, since it consists of long sequence shots and many erotic drawings. In this regard, the actor has a rather amusing anecdote that he revealed to the newspaper Release. He didn’t exactly pose naked for the illustrator who made these sketches… but he still gave her a hell of a hand.
I was at my mother’s for the weekend…
“Judith Fraggi did the drawings, and I think Claire was not satisfied with the first onesexplains the 40-year-old actor to the daily newspaper. She calls me one day saying: ‘Could you take pictures of yourself a bit naked, in positions?’ I was on the weekend at my mother’s… so I made a few. She wanted some muscle but that, I did not see where we were going to find it.“A nice way to participate in the eroticism of the film without revealing too much.
My stepfather was quite close to her
Swann Arlaud plays Yann Lemée At the movie theater. The writer had shared the last 16 years of Marguerite Duras’ life. The actor himself had had the chance to meet her several times during his childhood. “My stepfather, who was a cinematographer, was quite close to her, so I have memories of this househe recalls. It was a face who was one of my parents’ friends, there was nothing sacred in that for a child. She cooked food, refused to have her piano hooked up because it was too expensive, but still played on it. There was indeed something imposing, but it was later, when I read it at 20, that I understood that it was a kind of monument…“
Find the full interview with Swann Arlaud in the Liberation newspaper of February 9, 2022.