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The French actor in the film Bolero, about Maurice Ravel and his secrets, talked about this big role on the show “Conversations”. A powerful biopic that took two years to make.
Raphael Personaz puts himself in the shoes of the genius Maurice Ravel in the Anne Fontaine-directed biopic, which hits theaters on March 6, 2024. In the show “Talks”, the actor returned to the preparation for this role, which had a great impact. “I must say that when I read the script, I said to myself, ‘This is the moment when I have the opportunity to meet a character with whom I feel a common friendship.'” And it’s done, after two years, the French actor sees his character as a friend. He recounts a year of intense preparation to both play the piano and lead an orchestra, a heady experience “one of the happiest shooting moments of his life.”
When he was approached for the role, Raphael Personaz was at a turning point in his career; “I had just turned forty and I read an interview with Benoit Magimel who said that ‘interesting roles come after 40.’ A theory that was: confirmed according to him; As for “after”, he prefers not to dwell too much at the moment.
Source: Le Figaro
