“I missed out on the job I wanted to do”

Comedian and actress Muriel Robin reflected on her career and, in particular, the impact her coming out has had over the years. It’s in Entertainment TV that she gave up on her regrets, believing that she had not had the career she wanted: to have more roles in the cinema. “In the profession, you shouldn’t say that you are homosexual because you don’t work if you say so”, she said. “Proof of this is that for 30 years I haven’t made a film. (…) We don’t tell you, but it occurred to me last month. It’s obvious. How do you explain that in 30 years I haven’t been seen in the cinema? How do you explain it?”

According to her, the directors “put gays with gays and straights with straights. I missed out on the job I wanted to do”, she lamented. However, one of her roles in the cinema marked the French.es, that of Béatrice de Montmirail in The Corridors of Time: The Visitors 2. Muriel Robin took over the role of Valérie Lemercier in the first part.

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Muriel Robin confides in her depression

But the actress deeply regrets having participated in this second part, confident that if she had the opportunity, she would not do it again. “I shouldn’t have done it. Already when you’re not chosen, it’s not terrible, but being chosen second… I did it anyway because Valérie Lemercier didn’t want to do it, but I’m not a second. It’s not very good for his ego (…) I was not happy and therefore I was not very funny and I was not very good either,” she explains to Entertainment TV. She also claims to have had a depression because of the career she did not have in the cinema. “It killed me. It’s the biggest heartbreak of my life. I couldn’t have the love story I wanted with cinema”, she said.