By: Azad Karimi
I’ve done an acting school from 18 years to 21years: Le Cours Florent. After that, I started working pretty much fast. First with my theater company, then for TV, and years after years I built my career.
Interview
French Actor Geoffrey Couët
By Azad Karimi
Years ago I read a book by Stella Adler, an American artist. She was one of the most important masters of acting. The name of this book was "Acting technique".
... Adler trained actors' sensory imagination to help make the characters' experiences more vivid. She believed that mastery of the physical and vocal aspects of acting was necessary for the actor to command the stage, and that all body language should be carefully crafted and voices need to be clear and expressive...Wikipedia
She attended Konstantin Stanislavski's classes in Paris and was greatly influenced by him.
Stanislavski was one of the Russian theorists who valued the actor, and his theories, known as the Stanislavski method, revolutionized the art of acting.
Stanislavski advised actors to use their imagination more to present and perform acting than memory.
and he argued that the actor would go into a stereotype if immersed in a mold, so he turned to a method of acting that was close to fluid style to give the actor more creativity.
One thing Stanislavski emphasized was the actor's refraining from talking about herself.
In the text of the interview, Geoffry says that the immortality of the plays of the great actors is a secret and mysterious subject that should not be told.
This sentence, frankly, reminded me of Stanislawski, and I thought this introduction would not be interesting without paying homage to Stella Adler, a professor of an acting theorist who is a great student of Stanislavski.
I hope Geoffrey is successful and progresses in his work. I wish him happiness.
Thank you!
Vestland-Norway
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1- Please present yourself: Name, education, Civil status and...
.My name is Geoffrey Couët, I am a 32 years old. French artist.
2-What is your artistic speciality?
.I am an actor. More on cinema those last years, but I am also a theater actor, a director, dancer, writer… many possibilities in an artist’s life!
3- When and how did you become interested in this field of art?
.I’m going to acting classes since I was 6 years old! So I guess it has always been there!
4- Who was your motivator?
.I can’t answer « who » but maybe more « what » … The infinity of imagination and the freedom it gives (you can go anywhere, you can do everything with art) is and was my motivator.
5- What was your parent’s reaction?
.My parents always supported me and encouraged me to be an artist, as long as I was really involved in what I do. Do what you want, but do it seriously! And I am thankful for that. I have 3 brothers, and the four of us have different life, career, personality, we are all fully happy about it, and I am sure that it’s due to the education and openness in the world that our parents passed on to us.
6- When did you become such a professional artist-actor?
.I’ve done an acting school from 18 years to 21years: Le Cours Florent. After that, I started working pretty much fast. First with my theater company, then for TV, and years after years I built my career.
7- Are you thankful and happy because of your activities as Cinema-Theatre- TV actor?
.I do! I am lucky to have great parts of cinema since I shot « Theo and Hugo » (Paris 05:59). I miss theater in those years but … life is long and you have to be patient!
8-Why does some actors become immortal?
.let’s say because they find the perfect place between… there heart, their craziness, their sincerity, a director, a scenario, and an audience?
9-Why does some movie playing become immortal... for example Robert De Niro playing in Raging Bull or Elizabeth Taylor in Cat on a hot Tin Roof?
.There is something mysterious about fascination… Let’s not solve it!
10- How do you see the view... about art, culture, and acting?
.With Covid, and everything being stopped, it’s not the best moment to talk about it. But art will never die and I can’t wait that it starts back!
11- Can you become one part of the cultural movement for motivation in youth or new generations in your country and so on?
.Transmission is something really important for me, and I always try to help. the next generation… but I guess I still feel young so it is a bit too early to answer that question!
12- How can you help our world become a better place to live?
.My job can be a step for that. Movies have messages and help people looking at the world. That’s why I love some movies I’ve done, in Théo and Hugo (Paris 05:59) it deals with HIV, in Shiny Shrimps it deals with being gay and proud… I love it when people in the audience tell me « the movie change my mind, helped me » …
13- Have you more words to say or suggest for our readers?
.As they sing in RENT: No day but today! Enjoy life every day the best way that you can!
Geoffrey Couët
Bande-démo: https://youtu.be/Dg-3KvNEMVQ
Agence: http://www.cineart.fr/talent/geoffrey_couet.htm
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