Guest of the show "Icons" with Michel Denisot on Saturday, actress Sylvie Testud returned to the sources of inspiration that marked her personally and professionally.
A mix of retro Italian music from the 1980s, the atmosphere of Claude Millier's film "L'Effrontée", and the Motown nebula.
INTERVIEW
Before shining in
Les Blessures assassines
et
Stupeur et Tremblements
, a film for which she received the César for best actress in 2004, Sylvie Testud grew up in a Lyon family marked by music.
In
Icons
, with Michel Denisot, the actress, who has just celebrated her 50th birthday, shares her eclectic tastes at the microphone of Europe 1 on Saturday, from Betty LaVette to Duran Duran.
By way of Ricchi e Poveri, soundtrack of all the journeys by car when she was a teenager.
"L'Effrontée", a "great revelation"
First of all, there is this "great revelation" represented for her by the film
L'Effrontée
, by Claude Millier (1985).
"I was 12 when I saw this movie," she recalls.
"I felt mean, I felt like I wasn't the funniest, the most mysterious, the most beautiful. I had this damn sailor shirt that she wears on the poster, which I found filthy and that my mother would put me back on my back as soon as she was dry. I thought to myself: is there someone making a movie about her? she ain't even funny, what she says sucks, she s' annoys all the time, like me. I identified myself and I became a movie buff. I felt like I was Charlotte Gainsbourg. "
"
Kool & The Gang, it drives me crazy
"
As much as the character played by Charlotte Gainsbourg, it is the music of the film that marked Sylvie Testud.
With, in main title,
Sarà perchè ti amo,
of the Italians Ricchi e Poveri.
"I come from a family of Italian origin. We only heard that and my mother, born in Italy, knew the words by heart, like me. We didn't have a drive without hearing
Sarà perchè ti amo
I speak Italian very badly, but on the other hand, I know the songs very, very well and I hardly have an accent when I sing. "
Stevie Wonder and France Gall
To find the actress' other musical icons, you have to cross the Atlantic, without necessarily changing the era.
We meet for example Stevie Wonder, Betty LaVette or Candi Staton.
"I was very attracted to all Motown, all the soul, the funk… Kool & The Gang, it drives me crazy. They are strong icons for me. And I always wanted to know how to dance to their rhythm . "
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The French variety is not absent from its various inspirations either.
"I am crazy about Daniel Balavoine, from France Gall, Michel Berger, Alain Bashung", she confides.
And with her children, who love PNL and Ava Max, Sylvie Testud finds herself on Duran Duran, a group which made her "dance like a patient" in the 1980s, a reference decade for the actress.