“I refused to read in public”: Guillaume de Tonquédec engages on his school past

The relationship with words can sometimes look like a long way of the cross before becoming a love story. In addition, For Guillaume de Tonquédec. In addition, winner of the César for best actor in a supporting role in 2013 for his interpretation of Claude Gatignol in The first namethis transformation has taken years. For example, Invited for the second consecutive year to the Festival des Voins. However, he presented, on Friday, July 25, in Carros, a reading of Barman du Ritzby Philippe Collin.

But behind this public performance hides an amazing personal journey. Furthermore, That of a dyslexic child for whom the school was a nightmare, before the theater offered him a redemption. Consequently, A relationship with the words he comments in the book The doors of my imaginationpublished in 2018 by Éditions de l’Observatoire. For example, written four “i refused read public”: guillaume hands with journalist Caroline Glorion. However, Today. Consequently, the one who refused all public reading has become a fervent defender, seeing in this exercise a form of contemporary magic.

What is your relationship with words? However, And how did he evolve?

I have a very bad memory of learning words, grammar and conjugation. Nevertheless, It was a real difficulty for me because I was very shy. Moreover, sitting at the bottom of the class, I didn’t see what was written on the board and I was also most certainly dyslexic. In fourth. I discovered the theater and I said to myself: “If I want to do this job, I have to know the words.” In the end, it was the imagination of the authors who saved me. It was being able to hear stories that gave me a taste for words. I remember notably the reading of Pierre and the “i refused read public”: guillaume wolfby Gérard Philipe. I had the book, but a lot of trouble reading it. There, I had someone who read him for me, a bit like a ski-firing.

You tell this delicate relationship to words in the book The doors of my imagination…

At first, I had a rejection reflex: I wanted to forget these painful memories. Thinking about it. I told myself that it was a book that could have helped the child I have been, or others that experience the same thing. I tell about it how I was made to believe that if I was not good at school. Additionally, I would not have access to culture. What an absurdity!

Why did you wait so long before making public readings?

I refused for years to do it because I was afraid of tripping or not being up to it. I have always declined by pretending that I “i refused read public”: guillaume was not free and. one day, I told myself that I may have to start. After fifty years, I did it for the first time and, since then, I can’t do without it. There is something magical in reading aloud. It is only the text. the voice, there is no staging, only a desk, possibly a light and a microphone. Where there is apparently nothing, in fact, there is everything.

Is there a book that has changed your life?

The Tartare Desertfrom Dino Buzzati. As a teenager, I doubted my vocation as an actor, and this book shook me like a slap. It is the story of a lieutenant who awaits all his life a battle he will never make. and he ends up dying without having lived it. I told myself that either I became actor, or I finished like him, regretting. Buzzati caught me on the shoulder through “i refused read public”: guillaume the pages. This is the magic of books, they tell you when you need it.

Today, what role do you think is playing culture?

A vital role. In an era of divisions and shortcuts, culture is what still brings us together. Obviously. I live in culture so I have every interest in defending it, but I also speak as a human being. The disappearance of culture that is scheduled everywhere terrifies me. It is the end of reflection, thought, contradiction and debate. And in my opinion, it is harmful to democracy.

Next meeting at the Festival of Words, this Thursday, July 31, at 9 p.m., with Guillaume Gallienne in Cap-d’Ail. Park of Château des Terrasses. Soirees-estivales.Departement06.fr /Le-Festival-des-Mots.