Arthur RÉMI
Actor

Arthur received a grant to finance his studies at the Théâtre National de Bretagne.

What is your artistic background ?
I started acting at high school, in Bordeaux, and I haven't stopped practicing since. I discovered this discipline thanks to my father, himself an actor. From a very young age, when I saw him act, I felt a form of freedom that was coming from him every evening, in the theaters of the city center, a kind of carefree, perpetual game that showcased the twists and turns of his life. During high school I wanted to test my skills in this field, and at 16 I tried the competition for the regional conservatory. I was able to enter in round 1 because someone had withdrawn just before the first day. I practiced for four years before entering the National Theater of Brittany school where I am currently finishing my third and final year with the 19 other students of my class.

How do you see your profession today ?
I like to think of acting as a craft. It requires hard work, time, important work that takes its inspiration from the emotions of the present moment, from an understanding of the outside world, of others, of trouble. It is a profession that connects to the body, to the roots of tears. Actors, in my opinion, are anthropologists. Guardians who ensure the perpetual passage between the primitive impulse and the present, historians of the breath. Theater in general has become a protean material, which I like to enter with my humble experiences of everyday life. I like the physical sensation of slipping into the weight of the stage. For me it is above all a matter of pleasure, of warmth facing the immobility of the dead.

How do you see yourself in 5 years ? in 10 years ?
I hope that in 5 years I will remember the me of today with a distant flavor of insouciance, that my ideas will have had the opportunity to explode in flight and to fall back into dust trodden by my metamorphosed identity. I hope to be the same, and always seek to surprise myself, to create simple forms, through the intimate approach of the artistic processes with which I will have had the chance to fraternize in the meantime. As an actor at first, and then using writing and directing to try to quench my thirst, which will increase over the next 10 years. I hope to be able to meet more and more people, to travel and to see unknown disciplines, countries and faces meeting and exchanging before my eyes. I hope above all to remain faithful to my disobedience.

Interview conducted in 2021
Photography credit: Julia Grandperret