Guest of Anne Roumanoff for her role in the play "If we knew" at the Bouffes Parisiens theater (maintained despite the confinement), the actress Valérie Mairesse recounts the birth of her feminism and her new relationship with men.
INTERVIEW
She is delighted to be able to continue playing in the theater despite the curfew: Valérie Mairesse is playing in the play
If we knew
, at the Théâtre des Bouffes Parisiens.
Guest of the program
It feels good
, the actress humorously develops her vision of men, shaken up by her meeting with the committed director Agnès Varda.
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"I was a prisoner of my body"
Valérie Mairesse remembers that she was still very ingenuous when she arrived in Paris to try to become an actress.
"When I was young, I was a bit of a prisoner of my body, seen as 'naughty' by men, while inside me I was amazingly pure and romantic", she explains.
The actress then gradually learned to take over this outside look.
"I have changed a lot in 30 years" she observes.
"Today, I don't forgive men much anymore. Whereas before! If they were beautiful and they looked at me with love, they could have all the faults in the world, I adored them."
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Avoid the morons
For Valérie Mairesse, the turning point took place in 1977. The actress played the main role in Agnès Varda's film,
One sings, the other does not.
A committed film that tells the struggle of French women for the legalization of abortion.
"It was especially after I met Agnès Varda that I became a feminist", she sums up.
"I understood then that life was not only to please men and that I took my life in hand."
This awareness has changed over time his relationship with men.
"I try to avoid the morons, so that limits the choice", laughs the actress.
"I love men, 20% of them anyway. But I know some great ones."