Louis Garrel Recasts His Screen Image in 62nd Film as 43-Year-Old Embraces Looking Less Good
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Updated · The Guardian · Aug 28
Louis Garrel Recasts His Screen Image in 62nd Film as 43-Year-Old Embraces Looking Less Good
1 articles · Updated · The Guardian · Aug 28
Summary
Louis Garrel says "Just an Illusion," his 62nd film, let him play against type as Yves, a laid-off 1980s suburban father rather than the seductive roles that defined much of his career.
43-year-old Garrel said the part reflects an evolving acting philosophy: doing less "modelling," caring less about looking beautiful on screen and focusing instead on being intense without self-consciousness.
"Just an Illusion," a French box-office hit this spring, was directed by Éric Toledano and Olivier Nakache and mixes domestic comedy with themes including marriage, fatherhood, racism and Franco-German reconciliation.
11 September is the UK and Irish release date for the film, while Garrel said his favorite moments now come when audiences laugh at him and noted he will next lead Nanni Moretti's "It Will Happen Tonight."