Director Artus and the mentally disabled actors of his hit film Un p’tit truc en plus will take to the steps of the Cannes Film Festival on May 22, he said on Saturday, lamenting that no luxury brand has lent them clothes.
“On the 22nd we will climb the stairs,” declared the 36-year-old director and actor on France Inter, three days before the opening, on Tuesday, of the most prestigious film festival in the world.
Although the film released on May 1 surpassed 1.6 million viewers on Friday, its fifteen main actors will meet on the steps of the Festival Palace, according to Artus.
“There are eleven disabled actors and four classic ones, four boring ones, we would say,” he laughs, specifying that the latter are himself, Clovis Cornillac, Alice Belaïdi and Céline Groussard.
“More elegant to dress Brad Pitt”
According to him, and contrary to custom, no luxury brand lent evening dresses to the team for this climb: “I don’t understand why. They tell us stories about the quotas, saying: ‘We’ve already lent all our suits.'”
He assured that he did not believe in this explanation: “I think it is always more elegant for a brand to dress Brad Pitt than to dress (…) Artus and even more so for actors with disabilities.”
“It doesn’t matter, it’s our movie costume designers who will make them very nice costumes (…) and it will look very good,” he said.
“He was close to my heart”
Climbing the stairs with the film crew, “I have had that in my heart for a long time,” while “there are influencers who have climbed them ten times,” the director also admitted.
“Now that the film has this success, I think it’s even more legitimate,” he added, saying he was “happy” that his disabled actors “are getting a little bit of limelight at Cannes.”
In addition, Artus, originally from Montpellier, will be one of the bearers of the Olympic flame on Monday in this city, along with one of its actors, Sofian, he stated.
“A film that feels good”
Comedy that aims to laugh with disabled people and not at their expense, something extra It is already one of the hits of the year.
Father and son on screen, Clovis Cornillac and Artus play two little thugs who hide in the middle of a summer camp for young people with mental disabilities, to escape from the police. Artus poses as a guest and Clovis Cornillac as his educator.
Asked about the reasons for its success, Artus considered that “in this somewhat distressing time, it is a film that feels good,” and that allows us to discover “a population that we do not see often, people in situations of mental disorder.” disability.
Source: BFM TV
