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VIDEO. “A little something extra”: with director Artus and actor Ludovic
If Artus wanted to make this first film, “Un p’tit truc en plus”, it was above all to be able to “put the spotlight on” people with disabilities, who represent “10% of the population in France”. On the set, around ten amateur actors with disabilities performed. Brut met Artus and Ludovic, one of the actors.
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If Artus wanted to make this first film, “Un p’tit truc en plus”, it was above all to be able to “put the spotlight on” people with disabilities, who represent “10% of the population in France”. On the set, around ten amateur actors with disabilities performed. Brut met Artus and Ludovic, one of the actors.
This is the story of a “father and son go to a jewelry store and carry out a robbery. They look for a place to hide and find a bus with people with mental disabilities. The father will pretend to be mentally handicapped to hide“, explain Artus, the director, and Ludovic Boul, one of the actors. For Artus, it is important to change the way we look at disability. “People are frightened by what they don’t know and by what is different. There are lots of people who don’t know how to talk to someone with Down syndrome, someone with autism. It’s better to be clumsy than not to go there. It’s better to go see someone and maybe say something stupid than not to go to them.”explains Artus.
The comedian recalls that people with disabilities represent “10% of the population in France”. “We never hear them and we don’t see them enough, so it seemed normal to me, I really wanted to put them in the spotlight. They have an imagination and a madness, in the good sense of the word, which is enjoyable . I don’t understand why we don’t see them anymore because it’s caviar.”, he adds. Artus’ objective with this film? “That we come out of the film forgetting the disability and just say to ourselves: I saw a bunch of guys with whom I wanted to have a laugh and I forgot the disability.”
