Isabelle Carré returns to the cinema on April 3, starring in Olivier Ducray’s new film, And maybe more. On this occasion, the 52-year-old actress was invited to the show C à vous this Thursday, March 28, to discuss her work alongside her screen partner Bernard Campan and more broadly the great moments of her career in the seventh art, of its two most recent Césars. However, the actress almost led a life far from the cameras… When she was younger, it was dancing that drove her. But her dreams of becoming a dancer were suddenly shattered one day when she was on stage. An episode that plunged her into a deep depression.
“If you became an actress, it’s because you were bad at dancing,” began Anne-Élisabeth Lemoine just before showing an excerpt from her guest’s interview with Bernard Pivot in 1992, in which Isabelle Carré acknowledged her poor dancing skills. “I did a classical-jazz show and I found myself with lots of dancers. Suddenly people applauded, and then I burst into tears. I couldn’t do anything anymore. (…) So I stopped dancing”, she confided at the time in Culture broth. “Yes, I stopped dancing, it was very hard. I suffered from depression when I was 14. Even worse than that, because I didn’t want to live anymore.” reacted the actress after viewing the images in which she was barely 21.
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Isabelle Carré “saved” by a famous actress
Isabelle Carré was in fact interned in the psychiatric department of the Necker-Enfants Malades hospital in 1985 after having attempted suicide, as she indicated to the JDD in 2018. It is in this establishment that she click that will change his life: “It was seeing the film A woman at her window with Romy Schneider, at the child psychiatric hospital, that I told myself that I was going to enroll in a theater class. I felt good there. And you see, all these emotions which constantly overflow and which are embarrassing in life, well suddenly on stage I was told: “No, it’s fine, it’s ok” she continued on the set of France 5. In an interview given to Marie Claireon February 29, the artist already spoke of the lifeline that dramatic art represented for her. “When I saw Romy Schneider’s emotion, I knew that even without being a dancer, there would be a place for my emotion on stage. Being an actress saved my life.”
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