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VIDEO. Guillaume Canet talks about the fears of his life
Starring in the film “Hors-saison”, directed by Stéphane Brizé, actor Guillaume Canet talks about the fears he had at different stages of his life, at the age of 10, 20, 30 and then 40 years.
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Starring in the film “Hors-saison”, directed by Stéphane Brizé, actor Guillaume Canet talks about the fears he felt at different stages of his life, at the age of 10, 20, 30 and then 40 years.
When he was a child, what he feared most was that his parents would separate. “It’s like any child who sees their parents arguing all the time. And there is this fear that they will separate. Until the day it happens” explains Guillaume Canet, poster for the film Out of season by director Stéphane Brizé, released in cinemas on March 20. At the age of 20, when he began filming his first films, the young actor had one fear: that everything would suddenly stop. “At 20, I started doing a lot of things, I started working since the age of 17, 18, I started doing a little theater, acting in the first films. I was afraid it would end, yes. I would have continued my riding career, and I would have been a professional rider, I think”.
“At 40, you are no longer afraid for yourself, you are afraid for others, afraid for your child”
At 30, he is afraid of “suffer in love” : “I have always been someone who is very, very whole in my relationships, someone who invests a lot. It’s not necessarily an age where people want to settle down. So it’s also an age that I’ve suffered quite a bit”. At 37, he welcomed his first child, Marcel, whom he had with actress Marion Cotillard. “There, it’s funny to say to yourself that you’re no longer afraid for yourself, you’re afraid for your child. We only want one thing, and that’s for nothing to ever happen to him. It’s funny how fear moves from the moment of children” declares Guillaume Canet.
Today, the actor confides that he “a little afraid of the world we live in” : “There is a phenomenon that I find quite creepy (…) on social networks (…), it is the way in which people forget themselves. They forget themselves to the point of hiding behind a filter. There is a way of achieving one’s own identity that I find extremely dangerous and harmful. From the moment people no longer know who they are or do not recognize who they are, how will they be able to connect with other people?“He finally evokes his relationship to old age:”I’m not afraid of getting older because I find that it brings me lots of wonderful things in terms of what I learn, what I understand about the world. I like this idea of maturing. Aging physically, that annoys me more.”
