INTERVIEW
"I loved it and hated it." Guest Friday of Ça fait du bien , Anne Roumanoff's broadcast on Europe 1, Pierre-François Martin-Laval, alias Pef, spoke of his relationship with Isabelle Nanty, often presented as her pygmalion. The actress was indeed her teacher at the Florent course, and it was she who gave him a taste for work, enough to lay the foundations of his career.
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"I arrived as a dunce from the Lycée de Marseille, and she trained me," explains Pierre-François Martin-Laval. And to achieve this, Isabelle Nanty used a rather clever technique: forcing Pef to work in a group. "She taught me that it was not going to be possible for the dunces. And, without realizing it, I started to work because she gave me scenes with everyone. I took it as a gift, not like a chore, and I got to work from morning to night. That's how I got to work. "
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The birth of the Robins of the Woods
In the third year, Pierre-François Martin-Laval meets Marina Foïs, Pascal Vincent, Jean-Paul Rouve, Élise Larnicol and Maurice Barthélémy with whom he will train Les Robins des Bois. "It was done in several stages. We first found ourselves on a show, and then a second that we did in Avignon," said the actor at the microphone of Anne Roumanoff.
In 1996, the troupe performed in a parodic version of Robin des Bois in Fontainebleau. One evening, Dominique Farrugia comes to see them play. "We had two fans who were called Lionel Abelanski and Michel Hazanavicius, who came to see everything we were doing, and who told Dominique Farrugia that he absolutely had to come see us", says Pierre-François Martin-Laval . "This is how the dream started."