After the comedy, the drama. Jonathan Cohen will soon appear in comedies Sentinel AND a difficult yearentrusted this week to First his desire to broaden his cinematographic horizons and to shoot in particular with Justine Triet, the director who won an award at the 2023 Cannes Film Festival for Anatomy of a fall..
Jonathan Cohen, after fifteen years dedicated almost exclusively to the service of comedy, directly contacts the directors with whom he now wishes to collaborate: “More and more, when I meet some of them, I dare to tell them that I would love to do something together.”
And he adds: “Recently I did it with Katell [Quillévéré, la réalisatrice notamment de la mini-série Le Monde de demain sur NTM] of which I am a great admirer. And I would love to shoot with Justine Triet.” Jonathan Cohen has already made notable appearances in several arthouse films such as amanda AND Enormous.
Thanks to Serge the Myth
According to him, his cult character of Serge le Mytho already allows him to land more demanding roles: “When Mikhaël Hers hires me to amanda, it is because he is a fan of Serge le Mytho. Cedric Kahn by how to do, The same. Curiously, this character allowed me to get closer to a universe of cinema that I thought was inaccessible.”
Jonathan Cohen will be the hero of September 8 Sentinel, an offbeat action comedy about a singing cop. Then he will be one of the headliners ofa difficult year of Toledano and Nakache on October 18.
The opportunity for him to reveal a new facet of his personality, estimates Olivier Nakache in the columns of First: “Like most actors who come from comedy, he wants to show that he can be good in other registers, but that he also has the ability to release a certain melancholy through comedy.”
Source: BFM TV
