Laura Smet. “For me, the scene has long been associated with my father and his concerts.”

Over the past five years, Laura Smet has been very much in the media, often against herself. Since the disappearance of her famous father, the tabloid press has exploded her life, almost making us forget the bottom line: Laura is an actress. Excellent even indoors Eager bodiesthe first film of his career, The Bridesmaid, The Guardians or series boyish, one of his rare professional interludes in the last turmoil of his existence, calmed by the arrival of his son. In this return of 2022, he is with a new bet that everything is smooth. From September 22, the 38-year-old actress will appear on stage at the Montparnasse Theater in Paris. A great first for this eternally restless soul who had never been over the boards. Even when he was a student of Raymond Acquaviva’s courses; despite his insistence, I never left the scene. I was just looking because I was paralyzed.

Experience and a taste for risk overcame his fears. In The uncertainty principle – customized title for the big monster. he’s Georgie Burns, a glorified quad who meets Alex, a brooding and lonely septuagenarian played by Jean-Pierre Darussin. These two beings, whom nothing should bring together, will see their lives turned upside down by this happy coincidence. The director of the play and a long-time friend of the actress Louis-Do de Lenkes says. “The inner, intimate movement of the text brings people closer to themselves.” Their performers including: According to Simon Stephens, Laura Smet reunites with her desire as an actress who, despite doubts and unwanted benefits, has never dried up during the twenty years of her career and has been restored by the eternal question. Self-defeat and excitement are part of his DNA. “Importance bores me,” he will say, before waking up to his next challenge: making his first film. The start of the 2022 academic year is the start of renewal, renovation and first times for him.

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New dizziness

“These first steps on stage are a real leap into the unknown. I practice ostrich politics. I have stage fright, but I try not to think about it too much. I am my own worst enemy and I have to force myself to make that move. However, and this is rather paradoxical, I need challenges, to be constantly on the move. I worked a lot, tried a lot to ease my anxiety and did everything to get used to the place, to master it, so that on the day of the premiere I would feel at home there. But I’m stepping out of my comfort zone. It’s very different from anything I’ve done so far.”

lucky stars

“My colleague Jean-Pierre Darussen took me under his wing and under his benevolence. He gives me courage. I am a sponge, his calmness and wisdom soothe me. I trust him as I trust my friend and director Louis-Do de Lenquesaing. We met Eager bodiesmy first film, it made me act The Holy Family and offered me this piece five years ago. It’s been delayed a few times, particularly due to COVID, and the character has had a lot of time to settle into me, to the point where he doesn’t want to leave me anymore. I’m doomed to play it anyway. As Louis-Do told me. “When the desire is stronger than the fear, you have to go for it.” The truth of my character, Georgie, surpasses all my worries.

Validity

“George resonates with me in a way that is hard for me to explain. It is a free electron, live skinned, open defect, fully accepting. He is wounded but decides to fight. He is also very real and I need that right now. We live in an age where consumption and appearance are at the center of our lives. However, the images returned are often not a reflection of reality. I can sometimes allow myself to get absorbed and forget the essentials, but there’s something pure about this character that helps refocus things. He doesn’t understand this world and neither do I. Even if I need more and more frame as I get older, I also struggle to fit into a mold for long periods of time. It was already impossible for me at school. That’s something I find in a lot of actors, certainly, because acting is about wanting to be out of the frame, out of your own life, trying to understand others, maybe on the margins.

As I get older, I need the frame more and more

Laura Smet

On stage

“Gamine, when I went to see my mom’s rehearsal False confidences Everything in Chaillot seemed unusually large to me. I walked backstage through these princess dresses and lay down on the set’s big couch, which I fell asleep on. They came to remove me just before the curtain rose. It was surreal, but it was also my truth. I grew up there. Besides, to be honest, the stage has long been associated with my father and his concerts, more than the theater. There was such an immensity in what he was able to accommodate and give to the public that it still seems unrivaled to me. Although music and rock and roll are completely different from theater, it took me a long time to separate them. It was even paralytic. But I realized that actors build in silence where musicians build in noise. It is this silence that will calm me down.

Fruitful fears

“My professional life will always be a zone of doubts and questions, I’m afraid. But that’s also why I love my job: there are no marked paths. There are ups and downs, great joys and great disappointments, hyperactivity and dry spells. It’s inconsistent, and that’s a good thing. Insecurity pushes you to your limits, makes you challenge yourself. If I was sure of everything, I would be bored. And then, since I had my son, I also know that the main thing is somewhere else. I love this job deeply, but it must remain fun, fun. My deepest concerns are more about the welfare of my family, my child and the future of future generations; will they still be able to see the snow and swim in the ocean? Will they be able to grow with negligence like us? When one becomes a mother, the focus of one’s life changes. On the rest, we are more relative.

birthday

“I feel better today than I did in my 20s, although I regret not waking up in good shape all the time and being sore after exercise. As for my professional life, it is strange to think that I have been working for twenty years. I feel like I’m just getting started, no doubt because this job is a perpetual restart. I am still learning every day and discovering new sensations together with the theater. So much has happened in twenty years. One life. At the age of 17, I didn’t want to be an actress. When I joined Raymond Acquaviva’s course, it was about becoming a talent agent, mentoring young talent. But Olivier Assayas noticed me and talked about it with Javier Gianoli, who chose me Eager bodies. Twenty years of happiness, laughter, tears, questions, reflections passed… I allowed myself to be carried away by projects and meetings.”

I feel better now than I did in my 20s

Laura Smet

Mentor

“I automatically think of Claude Chabrol. He reconciled me to life, to gentleness. He took his work seriously without taking himself seriously. Nothing was serious for him, he was a child who put the game at the center of everything. There was so much joy and grace in his shots. I miss him. And that is lacking in cinema, which has lost its lightness. with the emergence of platforms and the rise of social networks, cinema attendance has declined, marketing and finance have taken over, and this inevitably has consequences for the atmosphere. in the industry.”

Transfer

“My parents taught me never to pretend. They have always been right. This idea has infused my life and my profession. They taught me never to deceive the public. If I don’t believe in the character or the project, I won’t go for the wrong reasons.”

Performance

“I have been working on my first film for six years and I will not miss it. It will be a psychological thriller, a love story gone wrong. I had so much fun directing other actors in my short film, taking a project from A to Z, visualizing what I had in mind. When I wasn’t interested in the roles offered, I also shot videos for The Avener and My Brother. Creating these images gave me ten times more courage, confidence and happiness than acting. The realization is so rewarding, so gratifying, that I hope it will occupy more and more space in my professional life. And then, since no one in my family has ever done that, it’s nice not to be compared to my parents on this, not to cite them by reference. It belongs only to me.”

Flexibility

“Right now I’m focused on acting, but hopefully that will lead to other roles. Since The Holy Family, I did not paint for the cinema. We must be honest. Being constantly in the tabloids does not encourage dreams. All this media unpacking does not appeal to directors, and I understand that very well. But I had no choice but to fight for my well-being, my future life, my son, my family. This whole thing around my father was scary, shocking and difficult, and doing theater puts the church back in the middle of the village. Cleaning, repairing. All this was so brutal that sometimes I wondered why I chose this profession and who I really am. But I am an artist, and I hope to bring the game and the light back to the stage. I need to reconnect with my desire, which always remains the same: to give emotions to the public. I had little or no access to this for five years. Today I am happy to show my work. My little flame still burns inside me.”

the uncertainty principle, from September 22 at the Montparnasse Theater in Paris.