VIDEO. The truth about actors by actor Félix Moati

Revealed by the film LOL when he was 17, Félix Moati remembers an episode where some young fans rang his parents’ doorbell and entered the apartment: “My mother opened it, while I was studying Latin, I was 17 years old. They came into the apartment and ran around screaming my name, which is absurd. But I found it amusing, it was my mother who was very scared. I have a Corsican mother, so it ended quite quickly”. Have all the actors ever seen inappropriate behavior during filming? “I’ve been asking myself this question a lot lately since it’s a fundamental subject. It is unacceptable for an actress or technician to feel unsafe on set. Every technician I’ve talked to or every actress I’ve talked to has experienced problematic things. I have never witnessed it personally.” declares Félix Moati.

“I attach a lot of importance to the uniqueness of an actress, an actor or a director, a director”

He adds that he understands when Judith Godrèche, for example, says “that she speaks but that she does not hear us (editor’s note: the world of cinema)”. “She is absolutely right. There is a maturity in listening that we don’t yet have, in the face of this. I think”. According to him, faced with the #Metoo movement, “there are two behaviors” : “We can say to ourselves: “It doesn’t concern me. I am neither victim nor executioner.” And there is another behavior, I think, which is to start questioning, the examination of conscience which is everywhere. I think that our generation is more and more sensitive to that. We are starting to ask ourselves questions questions, to potentially question ourselves. Are we part of the problem? If so, can we be part of the solution?” declares the actor.

Regarding the threatened future of cinema, he has a clear opinion: “It’s wrong. All the releases every week show us the exact opposite”. When asked about artificial intelligence, which some view negatively and who assume that it could ultimately replace actors and actresses on screen, Félix Moati replies: “I don’t know enough about the capabilities of artificial intelligence to answer this question. I attach a lot of importance to the uniqueness of an actress, an actor or a director. So I don’t believe that artificial intelligence can replace it but now I don’t know what progress has been made”. In the ecological thriller The Green Promise, directed by Edouard Bergeon, Félix Moati shares the screen with Alexandra Lamy. The film has been in theaters since March 27.