Alexis Patri 2:00 p.m., September 05, 2021

The actress Marie-Anne Chazel is Isabelle Morizet's guest on Sunday in the program "There is not only one life in life".

She looks back on the beginnings of the Splendid troop, which she believes was lucky to start small and not to have been expected by anyone, leaving them the possibility of making a mistake.

INTERVIEW

Marie-Anne Chazel's 47-year career cannot be summed up at Splendid.

But it is within this troupe, which she co-founded with Christian Clavier, Michel Blanc, Gérard Jugnot, Thierry Lhermitte, Josiane Balasko and Bruno Moynot, that the actress learned the profession and experienced her first national successes.

Beginnings that the actress recounted at the microphone of Isabelle Morizet, in the show 

There is not only one life in life

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In the past, Marie-Anne Chazel has explained that the success of the Splendid has been "long enough to come", leaving them "time to be bad".

"Today, I would no longer say 'bad', I would say that we had time to learn. We were not under the diktat of immediate success," she adds.

"We were in our bubble"

"We started with a very small theater which had 50 seats. Afterwards, we were in a 250-seat theater, after 400 seats. We had this chance that perhaps no longer young actors or young actors. young artists who get started and who are asked to have immediate success and where everything can be quantified ", she regrets.

According to her, the luck of the Splendid was that no one knew them.

"We were in our bubble, we were evolving in an environment of young academics. Charlie Hebdo was very supportive, but we still had no access to the media at all," she recalls.

"At the level of our careers, it has not been long, but we have learned. And we have learned a lot of things: carpentry, to build walls, to hold the cash register, etc."

"If your child wanted to become an actor, it was a disaster"

Without taking into account the absence of social networks, it must be said that the profession of actor did not attract as much enlightenment, nor the approval of parents. “Generally in families, when children wanted to become actors, it was a disaster,” laughs Marie-Anee Chazel. "We preferred that they do a good business school or become a lawyer. Today, as soon as they are on TV, everyone is excited. At the time, it was not at all. , the same lemonade at all! "

One more time that was left to the members of the Splendid before their national success, the fact that they compose a collective counted a lot in their individual careers, according to Marie-Anne Chazel. "To make a troop, that protected us. It was like a second chosen family," she analyzes.