Vanessa Paradis and Samuel Benchetrit now play together in the play Maman, written by the companion of the singer and actress. A collaboration that they mentioned on the set of It’s up to you.
Samuel Benchetrit and Vanessa Paradis form a couple both in life and on stage. True muse of the author and director, the singer thus played in her last film This music plays for no one. She also inspired his play Maman in which she plays the main role, now by her side. However, she hesitated to go on stage with him as she had confided in the columns of Madame Figaro. “We were afraid of disagreeing sometimes, of yelling at each other, of not giving each other space, of being together during the day and then on stage at night”, she indicated. Before his worries vanished. A subject that the two lovers have again addressed on the set of It’s up to youthis Wednesday, April 12.
Vanessa Paradis is looking forward to playing with her lover
Anne-Elisabeth Lemoine asked Vanessa Paradis if it was an advantage or a disadvantage to share the stage with the author and director of the play, who is also her lover. “Total advantage”, answered him without hesitation the actress. “In the imagination, it freaked us out enormously and then above all we wondered: I didn’t know that I could play the comedy in his eyes. I’m not supposed to play comedy in his eyes”said the star. “All our concerns stopped when we realized that we were really children having fun, playing together. On the contrary, it was very playful between us and, I think, very communicative for the public.“, she added. A point of view that is far from shared by his companion, as he explained with humor.
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Samuel Benchetrit confides in “his crazy stage fright”
“I’m crazy stage fright”, did he declare. And if he took over the role of Eric Elmosnino, it is because he did not find another actor to replace him, to his great displeasure. “At one point, you had to do the tour. So I did it myself. For me it’s a total nightmare, it’s horrible”, he claimed. “It’s a schizophrenia, between the author-director and the actor. The small voice of the author says: ‘Damn, it’s great, it’s a big room, it’s full’. The actor says: ‘Why is it a big room!’ My dressing room is death row”, he concluded with humor.
