What was the pivotal moment in your progression as an actor?
Robert Bélanger
I think these are the Urban tales in 2005. It was a pivotal point as an actor and as an author. I gave myself permission to do Scotlandtown [NDLR : pièce au ton cru, voire provocateur, qui a fait grand bruit à sa présentation au Théâtre La Licorne]. From the moment people saw that, people started offering me things as a writer and as an actor. I had never lacked work, but now I started to have a choice.
We met your “monuncles” a few years ago in a delicious documentary, when are you going to introduce us to your “monuncles”?
Anne-Marie Grenier
If one day there is a matantes project, I think it has to be a girl who does it. I went to meet the “Quebec monuncle” to demystify him. A girl could act like a mother. That would make more sense. A girl who perhaps feels like a matron… And the mama, she comes to my rooms a lot and I find her a lot of fun. It’s anecdotal, but after one of my shows, I was chatting with people and there was someone who told a lady that he was surprised that at her age, she liked [mon spectacle]. She replied: “My boy, I saw The Osstidcho.” Just because people are older doesn’t make for a more closed-minded audience.
When will you write and direct your first film?
Gilles Cadieux
Given the number of years it takes to develop this, I’m not sure I have that patience. You never know, but I find the process long. When I have an idea, it seems like I get impatient and I need to make it happen a little faster.
What type of hunting did you do in 2023 and what results did you get?
Sylvain Brière
I went deer, but didn’t harvest this year. Doing 99 shows in a year doesn’t leave much time for hunting, so it wasn’t fruitful. I had about three days to go there. But I have already booked my hunting and fishing weeks for next fall and I promise myself something better!
Like any human, you experience ups and downs. What makes you feel good when things are average?
Annie Caya
I run away into the forest. I need to go outside and do very concrete things: make cords of wood, maintain a forest, do gardening. Making a garden and maintaining flowerbeds brings me a lot of good in life. I became that! I start from small trees too. At the beginning of the season, I find things in my flower beds and I don’t pull them all out. I’m trying to figure out what it is. […] Every year, I replant around fifty trees which I grow in pots. I transplant them into the countryside in my area. I have plenty of space. I also sometimes collect oak acorns and put them in places where I think they would take a tree. On a vacant lot or elsewhere…
Tell us seriously what you think of your friend Martin Matte’s talk show. Should he pull the plogue or do a second season of higher quality?
Yves
I wish it a second season. Launching a talk show is hard work. It’s gotten better and it’s going to continue to get better, and I think we need to give more than two or three shows, more than one season to give the world a chance to get to their point. Especially live. The public has also changed over the years, perhaps we no longer have the patience… Everything is so edited now: we see variety shows that last 30 or 45 minutes, but they filmed two hours to get there to that. Maybe once in a while we can go back to real live music and we have to relearn how to listen to live music.
On tour throughout the year with his show Delicate. Series Leo resumes, for its final season, January 10 on TVA.