“When you make people laugh, it’s good for you”: from red bracelets to missing poets, a meeting in the cinema with Odran Katin, aka Larbin.

We discovered her on TV in Les Bracelets Rouges, loved her on stage Dead poets society And this week we find Audran Katins in his big screen debut alongside Le Larbin. For AlloCiné, the actor looks back on his career.

AlloCiné: How did you discover comedy?

Audra Katyn: I was at a college in Bordeaux where there was an “overture” option: pastry opening, horse opening, etc… and I was lucky enough to meet a “theatre opening” with an incredible French teacher who looked a bit like me. Mr. Keating in Dead Poets’ Circle and Who Made Me Want to Do This. I told myself I always wanted to do this, so I joined an extracurricular theater group. I stayed there from the age of 12 to 18 and spent my best years there.

With ‘Les Bracelets Rouges’, do you still see yourself with the other cast members of the series?

Yes. Also, we did a sort of reunion there for season 5, the old ones came back, so we got to see each other. Otherwise, I see a lot of Luna Espinosa, who was my favorite in the series. I saw Azize Diabate Abdulae again for the speech and we update each other a lot, we call each other a lot. Tom Rivoire is a big traveller, he is often abroad, so we see each other a little less. Then the technical teams as well, we see each other quite often because it’s been like that for three years. It’s a bit like Harry Potter, of course on a smaller scale, but I grew up with this whole team, so it’s family.

Have you watched other seasons?

I haven’t seen season 5 yet, but I have seen season 4 and I think they are great. I met them, they are cute and I think they are very talented.

It’s a bit like Harry Potter, of course on a smaller scale, but I grew up with this team so it’s family

What did this experience bring you?

when i arrived red bracelets, what I missed and what I wanted to find again in the theater was a bit of eccentricity that I naturally have. At first they told me: “Do less, do less, do less”, because I was making boxes out of them, but it allowed me to have a very naturalistic game. This is very good, because now, in the cinema, I act very naturally.

But for this Minion, it’s funny because my naturalistic acting creates a kind of hybrid comedy because everyone is doing so much and I, on the other hand, believe everything. I’m a hyper naturalist, hyper first rate, where sometimes, in certain scenes, I could add a little more comedy. And for the rest of my little career, I really want to do a lot of comedy because I find that it’s very precise, very tough, probably more so than drama, and that once you make people laugh, you can send them away. Many messages.

Have you seen it in the theater as well, on stage with the “Circle of Disappeared Poets” group…

We were quite surprised. There was a lot of confusion. It was the public acceptance of what we were saying and the standing ovation every night. We were really nervous about that. And there was an army, a group. We always love each other. So everything is mixed up. And when you finish the story, people stand up, and you feel that your work was useful… It makes me shudder to even say it. To say that this profession is useful in this popular area of ​​art, in the good sense of the word, entertainment that brings good, with a simple message that does not announce a revolution in philosophy that simply says: “Seize the moment.”

Don’t “do nothing yolo”, that’s not what Carpe Diem is. It’s about realizing who you are, where you come from, and taking advantage of life’s opportunities. Life is so short. And that, when you see that it’s affecting so many people and that you haven’t done the popular s*** thing, it’s disturbing. You see that you have done good to people. When you realize that there are people who save lives and that your job as a performer is a bit of a waste when you make people laugh, it feels good.

I think I prefer the comfort of the theater

Now that you do both, do you have a preference between film and theater?

I think I’m naturally inclined to love the theater and the “live performance” side of it, to have that direct interaction with the public, the warmth, the athletic side of experiencing a performance for two hours. I have to take the whole piece to get it all the way through. For example, in Dead poets society, I’m playing a little idiot and then I’m studying and I’m going to be much more on the dramatic side. I need this evolution to really feel it and get to the final scene. Where in the cinema, you’ve just eaten on cantosh and you have to have a big scene where you have to cry, for example. I can have that immediacy, but I think I prefer the comfort of the theater.

I play better when I can forget about myself

Let’s see what life will bring me, but for now I love the theater and the troupe side, the fact that I forget myself, that the ego takes up less space. Acting in movies is about images, you see yourself all the time, and I know it weighs me down because I’m hypersensitive and I perform better when I can forget myself, when I feel like I’m in the spotlight. In time I will gain confidence and be able to relax. But in the football team, I’m more of a defensive midfielder, not an attacker. I like being in a group and participating Dead poets society In fact, the main role is not. It’s choral and I love it.

In this Minion movie, you are the headliner for the first time. is it pressure

Yes, of course. I can’t deny that, of course. But it’s cool because it happened at the right time. I passed the casting Minion Three years ago I was 26 years old. If I had my first such role at the age of one red bracelets I would have been less prepared and invested a lot of ego, it would have been earlier. There is pressure here, but good pressure. You have a goal, you know where you are going, you want to do your job well. It’s more a desire to make a beautiful film than a desire to excel.

Is it impressive to work with partners like Kad Merad and Clovis Cornillac?

A little at first, obviously. But from filming, they will put you on the same stage as them. This is care, we are colleagues, we work, period. There is no talk of a star or anything else. In fact, you quickly realize that the people around you are more likely to create stardom. But this is normal, our image profession creates it. But no, it’s not a problem, they are normal, caring and talented people.

It’s more a desire to make a beautiful film than a desire to excel

What was the challenge in this role?

Minion It was very tiring because it was two months straight. Comedy requires a lot of rhythm and precision, so it was exhausting. And then I decided to do stunts on my own and added it to myself when I could calm down. Then the fact of being the main role in the film is also heavy red braceletsThere were a few of us, it was a choir, so it expanded over time.

Try your hand at music. Do you want to do something in the future?

Yes, I have already released EPs and have an album in the works. But I learned not to spread myself too thin. Because I am very interested, I did a lot of things, so I tried not to be a little bit, not to be average everywhere. But curiosity allows you to accumulate “skills”. For example, I play the saxophone, and for my performance at that point it was a safe bet for the role. I also want to know how to dance and play the drums, so I took drum lessons. You see, even there Minion, I used to ride horses, so it might come in handy in the future. In addition, they asked me at the casting if I knew how to ride a horse… but actually I didn’t! So then they paid me for the lessons.

Comments collected in Paris on June 11, 2024 by Romane Balderani and Nina Dorso