“But what an actor, what a stubborn actor, what strength!” : Alban Ivanov recalls the importance of the holiday

Along with his shows, Alban Ivanov traces, film after film, his way through the landscape of French cinema and especially comedy. After Les Mythos and Patients, in 2017’s Le Sens de la fête, she really stands out in a waitress costume that’s as inept as it is cute. A role he got thanks to a certain Jamel Debussy:

“At Le Sens de la fête, Mr. Nakache and Mr. Toledano, I have doubts about the film, because of my bad second attempt. They come to see my show at the Comedy Club and love it. Jamel was there. In the room, he’s upstairs, you’ll see them In the locker room and tells them, “You guys have to take Albany,” like, you don’t have a choice, he’s always been behind me and he’s always believed in me from the start..

This ensemble film, which stars Gilles Lelouch, Eye of Haidara, Jean-Paul Rouv, Vincent McCain, Benjamin Laverne, Suzanne Clement, Judith Chemla, William Lebghill and Kevin Azais, is an opportunity for the young actor, who was then in his mid-thirties. Let’s answer Jean-Pierre Bakri:

“There’s no better way to learn your craft than to be in front of these guys. So Bakri, it’s an honor to do scenes with him. And I was in awe. In this movie, he had a monologue outside where he was screaming. We all and p****, I was watching that, myself I said, “But what an actor, what a f***** actor, what power!” It’s really nice to play with guys of this caliber..

“I Became French Rock”

Today, Alban Ivanov returns to cinema with Challenger, which marks his fourth collaboration with Varante Sujian. With each film, the director offers him a new score. In Inseparable, he was the hilarious (and clingy) Putin. In Walter, he played an aspiring thug confronted by a security guard like no other. In La Traversée, he played a former BAC policeman who is transformed into a captain and forced to live with a group of youths. And in Challenger, he’s Luke, a second-rate boxer who finally gets lucky. Finally, he nodded to his childhood:

“Rocky, of course, influenced me. And then it’s a bit of revenge, because in elementary school I was called Rocky, because my mother pierced my ear: so I had a ring and I walked with perfection. And as I liked to fight, so my nickname CE2- Shi was a rock, I became a French rock..

“We didn’t want to avoid the fact that it was reminiscent of Rocky. That’s kind of the effect this movie had on us. I think we’ve done pretty well for the French with our own codes.