Corinne Masiero: "’When you open your mouth, you’re called a witch"

Director Guillaume Maidatchevsky says he wants to shoot you “organically, like an animal”… How do you take that?

Corinne Masiero : We are all animals. Unfortunately, we tend to forget this. It suddenly gets better, we react like this, it doesn’t happen all of a sudden, we react differently. A director’s ability is to deal with it. Especially when it comes to children, as here, even if for me a movie set is neither the place for a child nor an animal. But if it has to be done, let’s do it while respecting the needs and feelings of animals and children. Made by William.

You have to believe, because you promised yourself never to play with children or animals…

I didn’t make any promises because it’s happened to me before. But sometimes events shocked me. It’s like shooting with a baby a few weeks old. So I said to my father, “OK, did you rent it, son?“I’ve also seen artists forcing their children into the profession, picking up the crumbs. I find that quite deplorable. For me it’s a bad treatment. After telling all this to Guillaume, he was very careful about it, especially careful. Capucine Sainson-Fabresse (Clémence) , the little girl who received the Rroû, editor’s note) to her needs and refusals.

We feel a real complicity between you and him…

He’s a great kid, well beyond his age. Many adults would have to learn from him. Instinctive, very careful, tremendous propositional power.

A nice complicity with Rambo, whose real name is Furio, the dog playing my stupid dogWith Yvan Attal…

Oh yeah, I didn’t know? We didn’t talk about it in Marleau, which we shot together. Yvan, I love him so much, he’s a goddamn actor and a great person. As for the dog, they are there and doing their best, just like the cats and other animals in the movie. If at some point they don’t do anything, they don’t do anything and you have to improvise with that. It’s a bit like street theater, you can’t control everything. Moreover, it is better to avoid mastering it, despite the risk of upsetting the spontaneity and sincerity of what we are playing. Again, this is a matter of respect. If the animal doesn’t want it, it doesn’t. We have to do.

Madeleine, you play, is seen as a witch living in the middle of the forest. How do you perceive?

I study situations, not characters. I make game suggestions, then it’s up to the producer to see if they match. Back then, calling a girl a witch has always been a women’s fight. When you don’t meet the standards, when you open your mouth, when you’re different, you’re called a witch. Over the centuries, many have paid with their lives at stake. Today, we have the fire of the media and social networks, not forgetting the femicides that affect a girl every three days.

Behind her appearance, she is actually a beloved witch…

May not be loved by unloving people. This is how we will say it.
Madeleine lives as a hermit. This will not be the case with your shared house project in Hauts-de-France…

It’s all about getting away from the city that’s starting to get me drunk. I like to go there from time to time, but I don’t want to enjoy nature anymore. Random makes it less silly for you to find yourself facing nature’s demands. We find ourselves very small in front of him. This is a lesson in humility. We need this, especially those of us who are actors and actresses with disproportionate egos. We will be ten people. Everyone will have their own home, but unlike a community, places can be shared and unharmed. We will be moving this summer.
Do you have other projects for cinema and television?

I’m going to start promoting a movie called. marginal (In theaters May 3, editor’s note). A road movie in an unlicensed car. It’s still about norms and non-norms, as the actor playing me has mental disabilities. It evokes the richness of not conforming to the norm. The curiosity he brings about himself, the world, and the relationships around us. I’m also making a movie inspired by the story of Rachel Kéké and the Ibis Hotel cleaners who went on strike for months before winning the case. It’ll be called Little Hands. And Marleaus continues…
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My Cat and Me hits theaters April 5th.