In the heart of Paris, a few steps from the Center Pompidou. Déborah Lukumuena receives us in the House of Poetry, a place she loves. “Perhaps I want poetry to resemble me”slips the actress to the poster in recent weeks of Robust by Constance Meyer andbetween the waves by Anais Volpe.
The 27-year-old actress talks about her childhood in Epinay-sous-Sénart, in Essonne, with her mother and four brothers and sisters, Wednesdays and Saturdays spent at the library taking refuge in reading, her admiration for Emile Zola, Edouard Louis, Rabelais or Tchekov who led him to study literature at the Sorbonne, his discovery of the series The Tudors which triggered his desire to act, the filming of divinethe persistence of stereotypes on screen, his conflicting relationship with fashion, his disgust with racism and his relationship to his own physique: “My unregulated body will serve as a universal narrative tool for directors. It must be integrated and appropriated. All my childhood, I was told: “control yourself”, “channel yourself”. There is a relationship to strength that as an actress, you had to embrace. »
For three seasons and now every week, producer Géraldine Sarratia has questioned the construction and intricacies of a personality’s taste. Whether they are creators, artists, cooks or intellectuals, they all call upon their childhood memories, all evoke the social and cultural dimension of the construction of a corpus of tastes, of a set of values.
A podcast produced and presented by Géraldine Sarratia (Ideal Genre)
prepared with the help of Diane Lisarelli and Mélissa Phulpin
Directed by: Emmanuel Baux
Music: Gotan Project
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