Laurent Lafitte has just left the Comédie-Française but that does not mean that he is not working. The actor climbed the steps of the Cannes Film Festival with the team of Count of Monte Cristo, directed by Matthieu Delaporte and Alexandre de la Patelière. “I don’t know why I’m often given bastard roles,” he says. I am a very nice boy. »
It was in Cannes that the actor stood out in this register for She by Paul Verhoven in 2016 where he assaulted Isabelle Huppert. He then continued his career as a scoundrel we love to hate on screen for the series Tapie And Goodbye up there by Albert Dupontel.
A less naive pleasure
“Cannes, I can’t get over it,” he admits. Like many people, I fantasized about the festival a lot, then I learned to take a less naive, less glamorous and more cinephile pleasure by understanding how the event works. » The stakes are obviously less important for the count of Monte Cristo where his character persecutes the hero played by Pierre Niney.
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“It’s big entertainment,” he said. Some people may find that it’s not their type of cinema, but I don’t see how one could produce such a well-crafted film without being in total bad faith. It’s magnificent that this type of work for the general public is also represented in Cannes. »
Beautiful tomorrows
Laurent Lafitte is not going to rest on his Cannes laurels. He’s getting ready to play a flamboyant new bastard. He will be the photographer François-Marie Banier in a film on the Bettencourt affair by Thierry Klifa. “He’s a flamboyant bastard, a version camp by Tapie who shows such energy in survival that he becomes fascinating. »
We will have to wait at least two years to see Laurent Lafitte again in the theater in a tempting project: the musical The Crazy Cage where he will be Zaza, a character created by Michel Serrault. “He’s not a drag queen but a transformist,” he explains. In the 1970s, the original play was groundbreaking about same-sex parenting. It featured a young man who had been raised by two men. » While waiting to return to work, Laurent Lafitte goes to see films. He loved it so Marcello Mio by Christophe Honoré.