INTERVIEW
He was born in Boulogne-Billancourt but says he came from a "more rural kid". The actor Guillaume Canet has reconnected with these roots by playing in Au nom de la terre , a film that tells the descent into hell of a peasant engulfed by an increasingly intensive system. A true story too, that of the father of the director, Edouard Bergeon, that the actor has embodied to wear the real boots of the peasant. At the microphone of Patrick Cohen on the program C'est arrivé demain , Guillaume Canet explained why this role deeply touched him.
"We forget that we agree to put some things on our plate"
Without describing himself as a pure city dweller, the actor confides that he does not "measure how" everyone was responsible as a consumer. "The subject of the film for me is not that the difficulty of farmers, it goes also to what was imposed on farmers for years after the war, tell them that we had to go to productivity, performance. They were given phytosanitary products, it was called that, and today it is said that they are poisoners when they are the first poisoned, "proclaims the actor, defending the farmers. He continues: "We forget that we accept to put some things on our plate and that these products, as long as we buy them, it will produce them."
In addition to this aspect of supply and demand, the scenario also had the merit, according to the actor, to show the extent of the complexity of what farmers live.
A profession often loved, in the open air with landscapes breathtaking, but exercised by farmers who "produce at a loss because there are major manufacturers who dictate to them how they will work and what they are going winning (...) A third earns less than 350 euros a month, working 14 hours a day, and is confronted with the problem of not being able to make quality.If they want to make quality, it is necessary that they pay for it out of pocket ", regrets the actor who adds:" There is a conjuncture that makes them find themselves the weakest link.Their father, grandfather, great-grandfather have managed these lands. find to be the one who can not do it anymore and who will have to sell. "
"Extremely proud" of the film
A general picture that can end in drama. "It's total guilt and that's where they start to commit the irreparable," says the comedian who says "extremely proud of this film." "This is the first time I have committed so much.I have always been a little embarrassed by the fact that actors engage politically or socially.It always took a little off my fantasy as a spectator, he explains.
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I do not know what my son eats at school at lunchtime and it really annoys me
But for this feature film, which he co-produced, he feels that he has not been able to "do otherwise, it is not the actor who speaks, he is the father of a family, he is the citizen. I do not know what my son eats at school at lunchtime and it makes me drunk, we eat badly, we do not want to pay to eat and we do not want to cook anymore to eat, "the actor indignant.