Actor Jérémy Gillet, chameleon in training

“Promises of 2023” (2/12). Twelve artists to follow this year. Today, the actor revealed by the series “Mytho”, which will be for the first time this year at the cinema in “Stop with your lies”, by Olivier Peyon in February.

by Audrey Fournier

Those who had spotted his young first in the role of Sam, the “fluid” teen in the mytho series (2019-2021, currently on Netflix), were probably blown away, in June 2022, by his interpretation Very sure of Romain, an alter ego fictional of Ovidie in the dystopian series that the documentary maker has developed and produced for Canal+, very ordinary people. “I was lucky, I arrived in” pouf! Hello “…”, he launches in front of a cappuccino, a cigarette rolled between two fingers. Jérémy Gillet exaggerates, but, under the casualness, points to the assurance of those who owe their career only and, in his case, to a determination of an iron as icy as the blue of his eyes.

Before he settled in Paris, Jérémy Gillet had known only the Belgian campaign, the surroundings of Waterloo and Namur, where he lived until his 17th birthday with parents not specially worn on The arts and an older sister who has become a neuropsychologist. The taste for theater comes to school, very young, but the desire to play remains in a dream state for ten years. His parents, who were “not fundamentally against”, insist that he buys his studies – at the time, he thinks of cultural journalism, rather on the side of cinema – before leaving to try his luck in Paris. This horizon seems too distant to him, so the teenager enrolls in all the castings he finds on the web. Pub, figuration … “It was a full -time job!”

It was at 16, at the bend of a Parisian theater workshop, that he meets a casting director and then his future agent. The roles on television are linked, he passes in front of the camera of Déborah François for black sheep, a short film presented in Cannes, and, in 2023, the actor will appear for the first time in the cinema in stop with your lies, The adaptation by Olivier Peyon of the novel of the same name of Philippe Besson (Julliard, 2017), whose indoor exit is scheduled for February 22.

Technical approach to the game

This does not prevent him from still considering himself, at 22, in training. Several times a week, he therefore joined the ranks of the free class of Cours Florent, where he is in the second year. He does not hide his taste for a technical approach to the game and would see himself on the plates in peer gynt, the vagabond hero of Ibsen. “It’s easier to be just in the cinema and on television, he believes, because you are asked above all to be you. Except that the theater also attracts me a lot, and we cannot not improvise good actor there. You need anchoring, projection, diction. “

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