Every day, a personality invites itself into the world of Élodie Suigo. Thursday March 28, 2024: the actress and writer, Anne Brochet. She published a sixth book, “L’Armoire de vies”, published by Albin Michel.
Published on 03/28/2024 3:09 p.m.
Reading time: 13 min Anne Brochet, actress, director, writer. (RADIOFRANCE)
Anne Brochet is a writer, actress, director, considered by many to be a unique artist. Little girl, she marvels at My Fair Lady by George Cukor and later, at 14, the soap opera The ladies of the coast by Nina Companeez fascinates her to the point that she chooses this profession, actress. She is the poignant Roxane of Cyrano de Bergeracby Jean-Paul Rappeneau, or the moving Madeleine de Sainte-Colombe in All the mornings of the world, by Alain Corneau.
She published a sixth work: The Wardrobe of Lives, published by Albin Michel. She takes us into her memories thanks to the little bathroom cabinets, the ones in which we see ourselves every morning when we wake up. Initially, there is this happy little girl in a family home until it is sold. This sale is undoubtedly a huge turning point in his life journey.
franceinfo: Isn’t this face-to-face meeting a way of knowing where you are and the path you have taken thanks to everything that has surrounded you?
Anne Brochet: Not really. Not consciously anyway. What interested me was talking about these cabinets that I love. These are objects that upset me. It’s always the same and yet it’s always unique and repetitive. I’ve been wanting to talk about it for years, so maybe now is the time to talk about this mystery box, so sweet and so severe.
It’s true that this is something we all have in common. Your writing is anchored in this subject, that is to say it takes us back to our own memories. Is this what you wanted to highlight?
At first, I didn’t want to write, I wanted to take photos with portraits of people who talked about their wardrobes. And then finally, time ran out or slipped through my fingers and I said to myself, well if I talk about them, then that’s how we’ll be able to find our way and see each other also in these mirrors and in these small products.
“The bathroom cabinet tells the story of passing time.”
Anne Brochet
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The first times you started acting were with your brother. You are fans of commercials and you both play them in front of this bathroom cabinet. Are these your first steps?
In a way, yes. We were very mocking, so it was mainly to make fun. But the lady of Obao was stronger for me than Audrey Hepburn in My Fair Lady. When I watched Nina Companeez’s series, I could be everyone, but Obao, the woman who goes into her bubble bath, was the absolute woman for me.
We also understand to what extent fame is something that damaged you, that it was difficult for you to face?
Yes, I wondered what they wanted from me. It was not non-consideration, but there was an indescribable, imperceptible, incomprehensible expectation. I said to myself: but what are they expected of me? And this waiting which was not precisely named, which was a daydream, I did not understand. It was a little oppressive because I was always disappointing, which is to say that when you are free, when you want to be free, you disappoint.
And yet, you did not disappoint since you received a César, every prize possible and imaginable.
Yes, I would say it’s more after.
“We always expect more from someone we don’t know but we dream of.”
Anne Brochet
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What has your job as an actress brought you?
Inspiration. I myself am insatiable. I gained confidence in my creative possibilities. Cinema or theater inspires me with even more writing and imagination than I would have had without it.
Very young and very early, you had this sensitivity on edge. You had to tame it, in a way, tame it. When you felt an emotion, you ran in front of the mirror to see what it looked like. And you realized that you had two profiles?
Ha ha, yes… When I was little, the world was sometimes so loud that I passed out. And the GP said to my parents: “Lay her on the couch, she will wake up.“So they laid me down and waited for me to wake up. Apparently it was my hypersensitivity. And then I started to be interested in what was really going on. Instead of passing out every time it happened. was too much, I might as well move forward rather than move back and disappear. I moved forward and actually got closer to the mirror and that’s how I discovered that I had two different profiles.
We live through our reflection, and ours through yours. Do you like your reflection today, that of the woman you have become?
There is one thing that is very strange, which is that at night, when I go to sleep, I can never tell myself that I have gray hair. When I think about myself, which doesn’t happen all the time, I wonder what I look like. And I’m still 37 years old. I think I stopped there, and nevertheless it’s good to accompany yourself with affection.
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