The actress, who makes the success of the evenings of France 2 with the series "Le crime lui va si bien", is the guest of Anne Roumanoff's show "It feels good" Friday.
Asked about the subject after her participation in the film "Simply Black", Claudia Tagbo is annoyed that French cinema is not yet representative of society.
INTERVIEW
A great burst of laughter, imbued with irony.
This is the immediate response of comedian and actress Claudia Tagbo when asked if the place of non-white actors is changing in France.
The one which brings together between 4 and 6 million viewers in front of France 2 as investigator of the fiction
The crime suits him so well
was the guest on Friday of Anne Roumanoff in the show
It feels good
.
She is impatient with the too slow evolution of French cinema, which she would like it to finally resemble our society.
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“This question always depends on where we stand,” she observes.
"From my point of view, it moves. But not fast enough. It has to evolve."
What annoys Claudia Tagbo the most is the reluctance of cinema and television to hire black actors.
Often with pretexts which seem more and more unjustified.
"We sell dreams"
So she often heard that "the public is not ready" to see non-white actors in important roles.
"But who is not ready, really? The public has been ready for a very long time," she exasperates.
"When we manage to make figures of 4 or 5 million on television, that's it, people's imaginations are ready. They welcome these characters."
The actress wants more "representation of our society" on the screen.
She explains that she often imagines the thoughts of a little girl looking at her from the other side of the screen.
"So Claudia Tagbo, we're not going to lie to each other: this chick isn't a gun, she's round, she's black… And she's getting there. So I can do it too," she imagines.
Which is exactly the role of cinema for her.
"That's what we sell, we sell dreams," she recalls.