In 2020, the actress left the Comédie-Française. In “The Second Surprise of Love”, she reconnects with Alain Françon, the director of her debut. Successful reunions.
In Love’s Second Surprise, by Marivaux, Georgia Scalliet plays a widowed Marquise who does not remain in mourning for long. When love comes knocking at her door, she opens her arms. Life is a series of surprises, the author suggests here. You have to know how to welcome the unknown. But this stranger does not scare the actress.
The proof: at the beginning of 2020, when the Covid crisis lowered the curtain on live performance, Georgia Scalliet resigned from the Comédie-Française, where she had entered in 2009. A long-considered decision, but which she did not did not imagine seeing coincide with a planetary confinement. “I dreamed of a start in light and joy. The planned party could not take place, the petit fours remained in the freezer”, she remembers.
Goodbye French, back to Françon
The ex-member therefore put his farewells in the closet and went through an endless fallow of work finally listening to what his body was saying to him: “Since 2019, I had migraines, back pain, neck pain, my hips were locked. I felt like I had to clean up myself. » She who needed calm was served beyond her expectations. The pause in cultural life allowed him “to expel things” she hadn’t paid enough attention to. Among those, “the need to desert the institution to continue to grow”. Don’t think she fled from hell: “The Comédie-Française was an enveloping and marvelous school. A family that I struggled to leave. » She just needed to find herself. “I had to create emptiness and introspection, I was suffocated by inner upheavals. »
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