46-year-old French actor, starring in the thriller “Les Survivants”, Guillaume Renusson’s first feature film, is the guest of the podcast “Le Goût de M”, which is freely available from Friday.
The bay of Audierne, in the south of Finistère. Denis Ménochet welcomes us to his home in Brittany, on the occasion of the release of the film Les Survivors by Guillaume Renusson, in a stone house near the sea. A place that “calms” him and preserves him from frustration and lack of empathy that emanates from big cities.
The 46-year-old actor talks about his childhood spent abroad, in the United Arab Emirates, in particular with a father who loves rock and drawing and a mother who introduced him to reading very early, summers in Brittany. , his passion for animals, then as a teenager, back in France, for skateboarding , his rejection of French humor, the Inglourious Basterds turning point, his deep interest in the philosophy of acting and the impact of it. here on his body, the need to be connected to himself and his disgust with all dogmatisms.
He also returns to the importance for him of participating in films that touch on societal subjects such as feminicides, pedophilia in the Church or the fate reserved for refugees: “It’s a source of pride when you can put your art to the service of something greater than you that is needed. »
For four seasons, producer Géraldine Sarratia has questioned the construction and intricacies of a personality’s taste. Whether they are creators, artists, cooks or intellectuals, they all call upon their childhood memories, all evoke the social and cultural dimension of the construction of a corpus of tastes, of a set of values.
A podcast produced and presented by Géraldine Sarratia (Ideal Genre)
prepared with the help of Diane Lisarelli and Imène Benlachtar
Directed by: Guillaume Girault
Music: Gotan Project
