In 2020, the actress had left the Comédie-Française. In “La Seconde Surprise de l’amour”, she reconnects with Alain Françon, the director of her debut. Successful reunions.
In The Second Surprise of love, from Marivaux, Georgia Scalliet plays a widowed Marchioness who does not stay in mourning for long. When love returns to knock on her door, the latter opens her arms to her. Life is a series of surprises, suggests the author here. You have to know how to welcome the unknown. But this stranger does not frighten the actress.
The proof: at the beginning of 2020, while the Covid crisis lowered the curtain on live performance, Georgia Scalliet resigned at the Comédie-Française, where she had joined in 2009. A decision that had been matured for a long time, but that it did not. could not imagine seeing it coincide with planetary containment. “I dreamed of a departure in light and joy. The planned party could not take place, the petits fours remained in the freezer ”, she remembers.
Goodbye French, back to Françon
The former member has therefore put his farewell in the closet and gone through an endless fallow of work. finally listening to what his body was saying to him: “Since 2019, I had migraines, back pain, neck pain, my hips were blocking. I felt I had to clean up myself. “ She who needed calm was served beyond her expectations. The pause of cultural life allowed him “To expel things” which she hadn’t paid enough attention to. Among those, “The need to desert the institution in order to continue to grow”. Don’t think she fled hell: “The Comédie-Française was an enveloping and wonderful school. A family that I struggled to leave. “ She just needed to meet herself. “I had to create emptiness and introspection, I was stifled by inner upheavals. “
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