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Pio Marmaï at the Sauvage restaurant, Paris 6ᵉ, October 6, 2023. FRÉDériC STUCIN FOR “LE MONDE”
“When I ask people their image of happiness, they describe a calm place where everything is beautiful. For me, this vision is death. » Thus speaks Pio Marmaï as the night slips its cloak over us. “For me, happiness belongs to a very short moment. What follows is not necessarily a depressive episode, I just say to myself: get this, this won’t last. »
He arrived speaking quickly, his motorcycle helmet in hand, having just gotten off his Goldwing Honda. We calmed it down with a 2021 Riesling. Domaine Julien Meyer. A mineral and natural white wine. “Yes, but I’m not going to drink too much, I have to take it easy… if I want to get past fifty. » Annoyed grin. We were worried about the flow of words, not that of the trellis. He agreed: “When I’m anxious, I always speak quickly. » Three glasses and kidneys later, the torrent has calmed down.
Rue du Cherche-Midi in Paris. The restaurant is called Sauvage. Good wines, good food. Obviously, we said to ourselves that the Porthos of Three Musketeers by Martin Bourboulon, the over-indebted man fromA difficult year, by Nakache and Toledano, the colorful actor from Yannickby Quentin Dupieux, had chosen the place for its name. “Not at all, I asked for advice. I live in Bois-Colombes, I never go out to Paris…” What about these sentences – “I have always been in the wild” – who chase him in the magazines? “ That’s the kind of thing we throw around. I am no more angry than wild. Sometimes I have the fault of being a little cold, which is also bullshit. I’m working to get rid of it. But hey, we don’t care about perfection. »
A cherub. It is thus dressed that Pio Marmaï goes on stage for the first time. He’s 6 years old. He is needed for the raffle at the Opéra du Rhin, where his mother works. “I remember the light perfectly”, he said, staring wide-eyed at an imaginary spot. In CE2, his teacher was a member of the troupe of the Alsacian Theater of Strasbourg. This time, he is Harlequin at Goldoni, in a costume made for him by his mother, head costume designer. It grows like this: “Nothing has ever been calculated. What I have always looked for is a place that suits me, the feeling of being the only one who can do this, there, be in my place… Otherwise I would have the impression of a form of deceit. This job is not a question of pleasure – we have the feeling of failure a hundred thousand times more often – it is a question of meaning. »
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