This year, Bauillon likes to play the guy who remained in the fold, a little bankrupt, a little lost, who falls in love on a track of his former friend of the school that returns in her native province after having exhausted the strata of society. In Go to a day By Amélie Bonnin, who opens in Cannes on May 13, he plays the Raphaël mechanic with Juliette Armant, and in Connemera From Alex Lutz, launched on September 10, he is Christophe, the beautiful hockey player who seduces Mélanie Thierry.
A coincidence? “They told me you had to know how to accept the cycles. Maybe I was in the cycle of ‘the one left’,” the person analyzes. However, the 40 -year -old actor sees it as some differences: “We have on one side a very pop movie, happily nostalgic, with their popular songs, and in the other a very sought -after and very mental movie, with a fist in the fist that movies as close as possible.”
Apart from that, Bastien Bouillon also performed this summer in a “toxic child” in Nathalie Najem’s first feature film, In the days that comereleased on July 23, with Zita Hanrot. And you will find Sébastien Betbeder in The incredible snow womanWith Blanche Gardin and Philippe Katerine, in theaters on November 12. Again, it embodies the brother, who stayed in the village, who sees his sister returning to his province after being fired and leaving.
With four feature films in his credit this year, including two long -awaited, in which he has the main papers every time, Bastien Bouillon, physical son -in -law with a dark appearance, if not sad, skull or blonde wick, he affirms himself as one of the most prominent French actors. From there to join the very closed clan of Pierre Niney, François Civil, Pio Marmaï, Raphaël Quenard and others? Possible.
“The planets agree”
Last year he had already marked the spirits by interpreting Edmond Dantès in Count of Monte-Christ. Mr. Aznavour. Two French box office successes that have accumulated 11.5 million admissions together. The actor was also playing a more confidential film a few months ago, A man in the racewith Léa Drucker (37,000 admissions).
“It seems that the planets agree,” he admits without emphasis on her. And to add: “For a long time, I stayed far at the box office, like the list list, even if I had already had to do between forty and sixty films before The Night of 12. […] I have always had the option in my career. But sometimes the choice was to make a movie or not work. Now, I have the option among several projects, and that is a real luxury. “
Sudden notoriety
In fact, the man reached notoriety in 2022 thanks to the great (deserved) success of The Night of 12 By Dominik Moll, 545,000 tickets and six César Bockered, including that of the best film and the best male hope for the actor. “This César has validated fifteen years of work, but it can also damage people,” he says in France Inter.
A little earlier, in 2019, he had already won a secondary role of weight along with Fabrice Luchini and Camille Cottin in the popular Henri Pick’s mystery from Rémi Bezançon, bordering at that time the 900,000 admissions, and had filmed in Dominik Moll’s first feature film, Only animals, With Denis Ménochet, Laure Calamy and Damien Bonnard.
The one who obtained his first role in the Ivan Calberac television film in 2010, just after having walked the Cames Florent runners and the National Superior Conservatory of Dramatic Arts, also appeared from the beginning of his career in War is declared, hand in hand EITHER Marguerite and Julien of Valérie Donzelli. He also filmed in The War of the buttons By Yann Samuell and in 2 falls 3 winters By Sébastien Betbeder, with Vincent Macaigne, on the verge of the decade of 2010.
Son of
It should be said that Bastien Bouillon, born in Chateauroux in 1985, has who to hold. Son of director Gilles Bouillon and actress Clémentine Amouroux (which played in particular Perceval the Welsh, the Tree, the Mayor and the Media Library of Eric Rohmer or Meson From Alain Tanner), Bastien Bouillon is also the great -grandson of Joséphine Baker and Jo Bouillon, the famous director and fourth husband of the Music Hall star.
“When I see a documentary or read a comic about Joséphine, I tell myself:” It is diverted to be present at the birth of my father or my aunt’s, that my grandfather, with whom I put my César, was his assistant and his nephew. “. I have pride, but it is a bit illegitimate because unfortunately I did not know. “In her family tree of gold, he also appears to Anne Bouillon, the highly publicized lawyer of the Nantes Bar, specialized in the women’s law.
Son of Divorced, one of these “traumatized on Sunday night” as Madame Figaro told Madame, Bastien Bouillon grew up in Palaiseau, with his mother. “I was in shared custody between my mother and my paternal grandparents, who assumed the father’s burden,” he explains. At eight years, he gives his person in The tree, the mayor and the media library By Eric Rohmer.
Then, in fifth place, his mother enrolled him at a University of Steiner (an alternative pedagogy based on enthusiasm, trust and experimentation, which gives a great place to artistic expression and manual activities). “The only time I liked the school was in Steiner,” he said in France Inter.
At fourteen, the discreet, if not silent, crowd the boards for the first time in While expecting Godot By Samuel Beckett, organized by his father (who will later find several times on stage). Then he obtained a scientific baccalaureate, traveled around the world for two years and made his first ranges in cinema and television.
Passage behind the camera
Today, Bastien Bouillon resides in the Goutte d’Or, in the 18th District of Paris, gives his free time to the La Louve cooperative supermarket, a ruin to the Souterraine, in the Creuse. Or take care of their three children, 18, 12 and 4 years.
Lateral cinema, will play next JanuaryStaff of Valérie Donzelli, co -written with Gilles Marchand, caused by the price of the stage to the last show of Venice, and Bojarski’s matter By Jean-Paul Salomé, with Reda Kateb and Sara Giraudeau. We will also find it soon in Another story from Mikhaël Suyl, with Alba Rohrwacher, and in Night stories From Léa Mysius, with Hafsia Herzi, Benoît Magimel and Monica Bellucci, as well as in Small fears By Michel Gondry, with Gilles Lellouche.
Above all, the one who identifies with actors such as Guillaume Depardieu or Laurent Lucas is preparing to make his first feature film, baptized for the moment Celine Blackthat co -written with Ghislain tie. The tone? “A different vision of loves that disintegrate, written to the sound of the underground synthesizer of Barde Messin, Noir Boy George,” explains France Inter. Yes, Bastien Bouillon already has everything of a big one.
Source: BFM TV
