On the occasion of the release of the film Out of seasonin theaters on March 20, 2024, Guillaume Canet was the portrait of the week in Seven to eightSunday March 10, 2024. The actor spoke about several aspects of his life, like his relationship with Marion Cotillard, but also returned to certain aspects of his childhood. He described having experienced several traumas, starting with the divorce of his parents. Aged only ten, it was a divorce that he experienced with anxiety. His body itself reacted. “My body reacted, I had shingles yes” the actor confirmed. He then developed an ulcer at the age of 13. “The body speaks, and it is better that it speaks” he then explains. “It’s like the warning buttons, it allows you to heal, it’s when it no longer rings that it’s worrying.” “It’s childish things that I’ve since sorted out.” he adds. “But these are things that reach yes.”
An increased need for nature
In the film, the character of Guillaume Canet recharges his batteries in Brittany. In real life, the actor has the same visceral need to return to nature, which he has had since his childhood. “I have an energetic relationship with nature, and which is primordial, which is necessary for me.” When he was little, he would sleep in the forest alone. As an adult, he continues to do so. “At the foot of a tree, I go to sleep, and I spend the night listening to the deer bellowing, and I love it actually.” A love of nature which is felt in its support for the peasant world, particularly after the cry of alarm from farmers and the numerous demonstrations In France. “I am extremely touched and devastated by the situation, and I was already so before since I evolved and grew up in a rural environment. Today, there are two farmers per day who commit suicide. We are talking today today and there are two farmers who committed suicide today for example” he explains. “How is it acceptable today to say that we let this happen? For him, consumers must become “consumers” and ask themselves if what they buy really represents what they want to give to their children. A beautiful cry from the heart, and support from the actor, who wants France to remain an agricultural country.