Désirée de Lamarzelle: How would you explain to readers the story of "Marie and the shipwrecked"?

Pierre Rochefort : It's a dreamy dreamy film that brings together characters who are both funny, looking for themselves, and lost in a somewhat blurred time. And while my character goes through this period when nothing happens, he will make a meeting a little magnetic ...

The music in the heart of this film and you are also musician, is it a coincidence?

It was Sebastien's choice to mix his musical tastes with the script of the film, it was essential for him. The music with the collaboration of Sébastien Tellier is very important in this film, and we - the actors - were completely in agreement with his musical choices.

I read that the story of the characters in the film evolved according to the shooting?

Not in fact it is according to his pen. Sébastien Betbeder (director) starts from the starting point of characters who fascinate and inspire him, and then write around them to make sure that it fits into a story. But we all read the same scenario that did not change during the shoot!

Some scenes - the first of which - can live alone in the same movie!

This just emphasizes the character trait of Simeon and allows the film to start with a slightly more poetic and sensitive note.

Can we build a film on a starting point?

Yes and no, in fact it takes muscle behind a starting point to raise a point, like a spark that we will deepen during the film.

Thinking about going behind the camera?

I think about it more and more but I have to wait to be taken full force by a subject and to tell myself that I will not be able to continue without deepening this subject.

How do you define your character, with your co-tenant, in the film?

They are young people of today between two epochs, not necessarily animated by a big ambition because they did not find themselves. My character is a young father, lost in an ocean of possibilities that has failed to find his way. And at the same time it is this same blur that will give him the ability to follow someone on a whim.

Does he resemble you Simeon?

Definitely the lunar side yes! For my part I was immediately seduced by the first name of the character when the director made me read the script. This allowed me to appropriate the story ... Like a character, I let myself be carried much by things, by desires, by a sensitivity.

How do you choose the movies you decide to make?

I go a little instinctively by putting myself when I read a scenario in the place of the spectator, a spectator who is guided by his emotions and his feelings. But above all I need to love the universe, the pen, or the subject!

Do you have an unusual gaming partner with Eric Cantona?

Unfortunately, I did not have a lot of scenes together. I was very happy to play with him, even if football does not particularly interest me and I was a little apprehensive about telling him that I do not like to play with him, do not like football (laughs).
Otherwise it is true that I was seduced by its kindness because it is very endearing, even if we do not go tickle it because it has a real strength of character! And then I also learned to know him with what he did next, his documentaries about sport and about society. He is a sensitive and committed man.

What was the last film that touched me?

Five (film directed by Igor Gotesman with Pierre Niney ...) which I liked very much. There is a real energy in this film with this band of friends. And of course Marie and the castaways (laughs).

What advice do you follow from your parents (Jean Rochefort and Nicole Garcia)?

And not just any one! The advice that comes to me from the paternal side and that I am for quite a long time, is to provoke things, to create and not to wait too much for the phone to ring: We must go to creation, that's how one fills his life!

This is exactly what?

To reopen a page of a project for example, and write two more pages, or make a short film with so-and-so ... To move rather than being an actor waiting for the ideal phone call that will not necessarily always come.

You received a prize (Swann at the Cabourg festival) for your role in a B water Sunday, that was a boost?

A price is always good to take, but it is far from being an end. What counts is the fact of succeeding in bouncing from one film to another, it is the encounters and the ends of film that define the careers.

A few words about your news?

I leave at the beginning of May a record-of hip-hop- Thirty-three towers with pieces that I composed the last three years. It is not really thought like an album but rather a compilation.

Marie and the shipwrecked of Sébastien Betbeder, with Pierre Rochefort, Vimala Pons, Eric Cantona ... Indoor since April 13