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When the confinement came into effect, Sylvie Testud was sick. "I was not screened because there weren't enough tests, already. But the treating doctor who came to see me said: 'it seems to be that, if you can' get away from your family ... '. " For three days, the actress therefore remained alone in her "small office", hearing her children on the other side of the door. "It made me a little nervous," she blows on the phone. And then they left Paris, the time of the crisis. "I had the right to cough in my living room, I suddenly felt free."
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"It's been a while since I had time to write"
Since then, Sylvie Testud has been getting better. She is alone at home and thinks of becoming "the household champion". "I move the objects around to feel like there is a bit of life in this dead place," she laughs. Every evening at 6 p.m., she does some exercise. "Usually I take bar lessons on the ground, and the teacher had a great initiative, by means of an application: we are about fifteen dancers, we greet each other, each at home, we dance and she looks at us , it corrects us ... And it continues to yell at us. "
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Shopping is "from time to time", "in a small organic store". "Overall, I'm alone. I greet the two cashiers who are behind the plexiglass windows, it puts us in a slightly curious state." When she runs out of paper (the real one, not the one that is the subject of shortages in supermarkets), she gets delivered. "I haven't had time to write for a while, and now I have it."
"I even put on perfume, for me it's a reflex"
The actress watches movies, listens to the radio and music, and reads. The news on TV is "once every two days, because everyday is too much. I understood that we were not well." On a personal level, the confinement will postpone at least one of its shootings, which was to start in mid-April. "I imagine it's going to be far back."
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Sylvie Testud is a fan of long distance aperitifs, via applications. "I even put on perfume, for me it's a reflex," she laughs. "If it lasts a long time, we'll see, maybe I'll do a FaceTime with disgusting hair ..." From a distance, she also communicates with her children. "The piano is abandoned, so I try to find music by ear. I call them and they laugh at me, they are hilarious", says the actress, who does "no music" .
And then, two hours after the dance, Sylvie Testud has another ritual, in tribute to caregivers, on the front line facing the coronavirus epidemic. "I applaud, every evening at 8 p.m., it allows me to see that there are very few of us on my street, they must all have second homes ... People are in pairs, they tell me : "Good evening madam". And I am all alone. "