INTERVIEW
Tuesday, during the Molières ceremony, recorded several times and broadcast on France 2, the actor Niels Arestrup won the statuette of the best actor in a private show. An award that crowns his role in Rouge , a play by John Logan, directed by Jérémie Lippmann, which recounts a "passionate verbal contest" between the painter Mark Rothko and his assistant, Ken, in the 1950s. Like all his colleagues , he is waiting to be able to go back on stage, not without apprehension.
Replace fear with desire
"I'm like all my comrades, someone who would like to, someone who wonders if things will turn out well or go wrong before the start of the school year," says the actor, who clings to the possibility of doing a tour from September to December and then resume the play from January onwards at the Montparnasse Theater. "We try to put all our energy into the desire to leave, in the desire to meet people."
"I know the problem is that it is such a trauma to be in confined places for an hour and a half or two hours. People must not be afraid, as they say. They would have to overcome fear with desire, which is never completely easy. And therefore, we expect special moments which will no doubt be a bit difficult in the first weeks, hoping that (... ) the theater is leaving, "he continues. "But I understand. Even I have a fear whether it is to go into a cinema or a theater. And I tell you it is just necessary that the desire becomes strong enough inside each individual to make it happen ".