INTERVIEW
Good news for his fans: during confinement, Vincent Dedienne wrote. The comedian, who stars in four films shot before the coronavirus pandemic and released in 2020 - including Terrible Jungle , in theaters on July 29 - is preparing his next show, alone on stage. Because if it is more and more present on the big screen, "the theater is my home, my room, my cradle, my shelter under the bombs", he enthuses at the microphone of Pascale Clark , in Culture Médias . A "cradle" heavily impacted by the coronavirus crisis, however, recognizes the actor.
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"I hope we will take back" the Carp and the Rabbit
First, there was The Carp and the Rabbit, the play he played with Catherine Frot at the Parisian theater at Porte Saint-Martin ... interrupted by confinement after around thirty performances. "We did the last without knowing it was the last, I hope we will resume," smiles Vincent Dedienne. "But it's hard to make predictions", he adds: another show is planned in the theater at the start of the school year.
At the start of the confinement, then, the actor said he was "hysterized by the fact of experiencing something so historic", evoking "a small welcome saving phenomenon, which has relegated artists to the rank of artists". "It did us good, it put us in our place," he said. "But then I said to myself: if we don't save the world, maybe we help make it sweeter?" So Vincent Dedienne took advantage of this available time to write his second show, "much less" centered on his own story than the first.
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"The months which have passed have served me well", he explains: "The fuel is gathered in silence, in reverie, in contemplation". Respectful of barrier gestures - "I try to be a good student" - Vincent Dedienne still does not see "many people", despite the deconfinement. "It's my character, and I haven't had much time until then to let him live," he says. "I take advantage of it."
"We must turn our backs on this virus"
"I am a good student yes ... But I hear a lot of talk about bringing the virus into our lives, in our ways of thinking, even in our ways of doing theater", tempers the actor immediately. "I hear about a corona-compatible theatrical season, and for me, it's no," sweeps the one who should normally play his one-man show for the first time in Amiens, in February 2021.
But at all costs, "you have to turn your back on this virus, not to take it into account", insists Vincent Dedienne. "We have to face him. I tell myself that it's an accident and that if we start to integrate it into our perspectives we will make a best friend of it." So, how to do ? "I would be of the opinion to wait more", answers the actor. "To play in front of masked people seems very complicated to me. And to play masked on stage is unthinkable."