INTERVIEW
Isabelle Carré plays Yvonne de Gaulle, the woman of the man of the call of June 18 interpreted by Lambert Wilson, in De Gaulle by Gabriel Le Bomin, in theaters on March 4. The couple had three children, including Anne, who had Down's syndrome and died in 1948 at the age of 20. To interpret Anne, the film crew chose Clémence, a young 11-year-old actress, also suffering from Down's syndrome. "We owe her all these just and moving scenes from the film," says Isabelle Carré in "Culture Médias " Friday.
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"It is truly a privilege of this profession"
"To be sincere, it was really this part that excited me the most in this shoot. It is really a privilege of this profession to discover worlds to which we could certainly have access but not in this way there, not in such a profound way, and also linked to feelings, to emotions ", underlines the actress.
The film focuses on a small part of the general's life and begins in May 1940. It depicts intimate moments in the life of the de Gaulle couple and also focuses on their daughter Anne. Isabelle Carré remembers that all the scenes were not necessarily easy to shoot for little Clémence. Like this scene in the hold of a boat with "all the smoke, the extras in costumes, some bloody ... It was very impressive for Clémence. It was therefore necessary to reassure her", explains the actress to the 70 films to her active.
She says that Clemence "could not learn text, nor really improvise". "Each time, it was the unknown, we threw ourselves into the scenes without knowing how she was going to react, how it was going to happen," recalls Isabelle Carré.
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"We owe Clémence a great truth about the film"
The Caesarized actress therefore had to put the young actress with Down's syndrome "back on the script" when she could. "Sometimes she wanted to stay where the camera planned to film and sometimes not at all," she recalls kindly. Clémence had no coach on the set, so it was his mother who helped the film crew. "She had told him a little bit about the script and Clémence knew she had a scene where she had to repeat 'No, no, no'. And she really wanted to play this scene, it was a lot of fun for her to be in opposition. And for several days we were entitled to it when it was not the right day ", says Isabelle Carré.
"In fact children with Down's syndrome have this moving and beautiful quality which is that they cannot lie. They are in the present. Time is complicated for them. Often she asked 'and what next?' It was a way of reassure yourself and feel framed, "she remembers. Beyond the difficulties Isabelle Carré believes that we owe Clémence "a great truth about the film".