In The promises, film by Thomas Kruithof, released on January 26, the actor Reda Kateb embodies a director of the cabinet of the mayor of a city of Seine-Saint-Denis, interpreted by Isabelle Huppert. revealed in a prophet (2009), by Jacques Audiard, he has acted in dozens of films, including Hippocrates, Django, The song of the wolfand TV series as exciting as Possession Where In therapy. He will soon be filming in Algeria Omar the Strawberry with director Elias Belkeddar. Accompanied (always) by his dog, Paulo, a Yorkshire and Fox Terrier mix, Reda Kateb, 45-year-old Montreuillois born in Ivry-sur-Seine (Val-de-Marne), talks about politics and wine, which he like to taste “without being an expert”he warns.
In “Les Promesses”, you refuse to drink vinho verde during a working lunch with the mayor but you accept many glasses of brandy during a celebration of the Serbian community. Personal taste or effect of the scenario?
The script of course, but it’s true that for a real working lunch, I’m more of a sparkling water drink. For the Serbian evening, as it was the last scene to be shot, we made it a sort of end-of-shooting party. The nice band of Serbs welcomed us in the cafe and we tasted this eau-de-vie.
Do you like wine ?
Without being a connoisseur, I like it. A small glass of red in the evening. My first approach to wine was at 17, when I was studying literature at the Sorbonne. I was a hood carrier during the harvest at Château Margaux, in the Médoc. This encounter with the work of the land remains a good memory even if I came out of it with a broken back. There were local farmers, backpackers, students, a mix that I like and that I find in Montreuil. I loved the break, around 10 a.m., with Landes pâté, a glass of red wine – from Château Margaux anyway…
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When I was a teenager, my mother went to live near Bordeaux. She bought wine in cubi, in Saint-Emilion, to bottle it. It was their table wine. The family taste was very Entre-Deux-Mers, Médoc, serious, but these wines made me feel a little disgusted, with a fairly strong oakiness. I wanted to look for something else, near Burgundy. I really like Pinot Noir and Hautes-Côtes-de-Nuits. It’s a name that makes me dream, like a beautiful song.
This new approach to wine, around what age was it?
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