Alexandre Brasseur: “As a child, I went to film sets”

The actor Alexandre Brasseur was the guest of Valérie Expert and Gilles Ganzmann on Sud Radio on May 25, 2022 in “Le 10h – midi”.

On May 5, 2022, the book “Added” by Alexandre Brasseur (with the contribution of Mathieu Souquière), in which he recounts his life.

Alexandre Brasseur: “We are all the addition of others”

To be completely honest, it was a request from Éditions Plon. So, I let myself go a little bit, I admit. I was introduced to Mathieu Souquière, it worked very well between us quite quickly. And then, as the interviews progressed, we quickly asked ourselves the question of the title, which is all the same the guiding thread of all our story, since this story speaks of the addition of our livesof how we build ourselves, since we are all the addition of others, of those who preceded us.

And I said to myself: ‘I am really very lucky to have been able to live all these lives, to have touched directly or indirectly everything that I could have touched by this spiritual and family heritage’. And that’s when I said to myself that the book makes sense. I said to myself that I will in turn transmit all that had been transmitted to me silently but often generously. I think that putting things down on paper, sorting them out, helps you become aware of what’s going on.

“My parents never imposed anything on me”

Son of Claude Brasseur, Alexandre Brasseur, didn’t he want his own children to become actors? “My children do not do this job, and that, even if they knew my father well. And then, I think that we are always free of our destiny. Just because you were born in an orange shop doesn’t mean you have to be orange… Everyone is free. Besides, my parents never forced me, never imposed anything on me.

During this interview, Alexandre Brasseur also recounted having been fascinated from his childhood by film shoots. “I am a child of the trays. My parents lived in the countryside, my father worked a lot, and I left with my father every Wednesday, and I went to the sets, it was my playground. But you couldn’t disturb. My motto, which I verbalized later, was: ‘you have to see without being seen’. Because when you are in the gaze of the actors, you destabilize them. You take them out of this virtual, imaginary world and bring them back into a form of reality. So, I either hid behind the floodlights or strolled along the walkways that ran overhead.


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Alexandre Brasseur: “As a child, I went to film sets”