“I feel like I got screwed.” I shouldn’t have gone, everyone told me not to go, and here it is! ” annoys Michel Fau with Le Figaro, the day after the Molières ceremony. The play When the Child Appears, which he directs, was nominated in four categories but ultimately won no award. In total, the comedian has been nominated nine times since 2014, but has never won a Molière. He does not hide his annoyance and assures that he will not come again.
Michel Fau hoped to have “at least that of the staging, we must not joke! In the end, Forget Me won the award in this category. “I didn’t know that Thierry Lopez was a great director,” squeals Michel Fau. According to the actor, “the Molières have a contempt for real popular theater which is problematic”.
Another subject of irritation for Michel Fau was the political content of the ceremony. According to the actor, “they haven’t talked about acting once all night. […] They speak only of policy, of what one sees all the day on BFMTV. That’s not theatre. Before, there were great actors like Edwige Feuillère or Jean Piat who came to read texts. There, we fell into ecology and the CGT…”
The actor also returned to the intervention of two CGT activists on the pension reform, and the response given to them by the Minister of Culture, Rima Abdul Malak, present in the room. “The Minister of Culture knows nothing about theatre, but she responded very well by saying that we were privileged. It’s true: we are privileged. We have a system of intermittent workers that is unique in the world. »
And Michel Fau concludes by condemning the current social movement against the pension reform: “I think that France is an ungovernable country, that some are rolling out a red carpet at the National Rally with these demonstrations and that the same will cry when he will be in power. »
