Q: How did you
get started as an actor?
Laurent C. : I developed an
interest in doing impressions at an early age and was quite good at making
people laugh impersonating personalities. I auditioned to get in Neils Arestrup’s
acting school, the ‘Theatre-Ecole du Passage’ in Paris and got the opportunity
to work with renowned stage directors such as Olivier Py at the Theatre Granit
in Belfort in particular.
Q: What kind of
roles are you best at playing?
Laurent C. : I definitely favour ambiguous, antagonist characters
as I can play nasty but charming at the same time, with a bit of French Je
Ne Sais Quoi! Being fluent in
English, and a Native French speaker, I enjoy the ability to combine both.
Q: What has been
your big moment so far as an actor?
Laurent C. : I have
to say shooting The Time of Their Lives, a feature
film by Oscar nominated writer/director Roger Goldby, with Golden Globe-winner
Dame Joan Collins, BAFTA-winner Pauline Collins, and Italian heartthrob Franco
Nero, the original Django. Set partly in England and France, I play a French
detective involved in the enquiry after dramatic events take place in France.
Q: Is there a
director that you particularly admire and that you would like to work with?
Laurent C. : It would
have been John Cassavetes. He was able to get the best raw emotions out of his
actors and to depict life on film like nobody else, refusing to compromise to
please the big studios.
Q: Do you have a
wish list of directors you’d like to work with?
Laurent C. : To name but a few, and starting with France, Luc
Besson, Jean-Jacques Beineix, Jacques Audiard, Quentin Tarantino, Sam Mendes, Martin Scorsese, the Cohen
Brothers, Francis Coppola and Paul Haggis. There’s a mix of genres and Indie and big budget
films, but I think the connection is that they all developed stories around
tormented, ambiguous, antagonist characters.
Q: What is your
background?
Laurent C. : I grew up in the 70s and 80s watching American series
on TV, such as Wild Wild West, Magnum PI, and Columbo in particular where I
admired the way Peter Falk impersonated the character. I later watched him in
Wim Wenders’ Wings of Desire, and it’s through his work that I discovered
Cassavetes.
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