At the microphone of Mathieu Charrier, in "CLAP!", Pio Marmaï shares some of his favorite films, from the blockbuster to the film of which he may have been ashamed at one point in his life.
The actor, currently with the poster of the series "In therapy" on Arte, returns in particular on a crazy meeting of cinema in front of "Battleship".
INTERVIEW
Guest on Saturday by Mathieu Charrier, on Europe 1, actor Pio Marmaï, known for his roles in
Very first time
,
What binds us
or
In freedom!
, evokes the main films that marked his life.
On the poster for the successful series
In Therapy
, broadcast on Arte, the 36-year-old actor confides in particular to having lied about a
Whiplash
film
, which won an award a few years ago, his original shame for the film
Titanic
or his love of the soundtrack of the movie
Easy Rider
.
Your first memory of cinema?
It was a Disney movie,
Taram and the Magic Cauldron
.
This is probably related to the fact that it is a cartoon with colors.
I remember more of the energy and the colors than the film itself.
I must have been way too small, about 4 years old.
I have quite spectacular memories of it.
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Your best memory in theaters?
I think it's
Las Vegas Parano
.
Already because I saw it without paying for the seat.
I had entered from behind so there was the feeling of forbidden.
And then there's the subject of the film, this guy who gets carried away by this excess, Hunter S. Thompson.
He is a journalist who fascinates me in many ways, especially when I think about his writings and the relationship to modernity that he has brought to contemporary journalism.
There were so many prohibitions in this film, but it is at the same time so playful with actors who have a lot of fun, that I keep a memory of it where I say to myself 'here, if one day I could do this work, actor, I might like it '.
I think that was one of the films that made me want to make cinema.
Your craziest movie screening?
It's
Battleship
, a movie starring Americans on aircraft carriers, in the 2000s, starring Rihanna.
They are attacked by aliens and they recover an old aircraft carrier to blow up the enemy ship.
It's a pretty bad, very patriotic, American anticipation thing.
People were completely hysterical in the room, people were screaming.
At one point there was music from AC / DC.
It was a bit of a rat race, everyone was yelling 'you bastards of aliens, destroy them!'.
I was hysterical.
There is Liam Neeson who plays a general, the Americans blow everything up.
Anyway, when there are things that explode in films, I am a pretty good customer.
I'm not gonna lie to you, I like it when it explodes.
It's my thing.
The cult movie you've never seen?
I have a better story than that about
Whiplash
.
I saw him eventually, but lied for five or six years, even more.
When it came out, everyone was just talking about
Whiplash.
And I, of course, hadn't seen him.
One day, I was in a kind of social gathering.
There are three or four people in front of me.
I tell myself that I must not be too stupid.
Someone is starting to talk about
Whiplash
.
I do not know why, I fall into the lie, I tell him that yes, I saw
Whiplash
.
Afterwards, I listen to more than anything else.
The person in front of me said to me: "On the other hand, at the end, what violence, what harshness.".
This is the information I am remembering.
Afterwards, every time I was
told
about
Whiplash
, I said that of course I had seen it.
And I said: "On the other hand, at the end, what violence ..." Without ever knowing what it was.
I saw the movie not too long ago and indeed the ending is terrible.
But it is true that for years, I have piped up.
The movie you love, but you're ashamed to admit it
I loved
Titanic
.
I don't know if we can be ashamed of having loved
Titanic.
For me,
it goes back to when it was released.
There was such a popular fascination around this movie, we saw girls and guys in a trance who would see it 20 times.
I was like, "It's so 'cheap' to do that. I'm above that."
And in fact when I saw him, I immediately thought that I would see him again.
When Leonardo DiCaprio sinks, I whine.
But then I probably thought to myself, 'Pio, be a man.'
And then finally I found this film rather not bad.
What is the soundtrack that has marked your life the most?
It is that of
Easy Rider
. It's a film about the
beat generation
, about people who are in a quest for total freedom.
The Pusher
by Steppenwolf for example, it sounds stupid but I think it's a real tribute to the music of the 1970s. That of people who perhaps cared a little less about what they can develop in terms of image that of what they can develop musically. It was a rocker in psychedelic rock. "