00:00Lucas, lovely to see you again and congratulations on this film because I feel even just you being
00:06in it is just opening up to a whole world of people so that's pretty amazing. But when it's
00:13in French, do you connect with material more so than it being in English or anything else?
00:20That's a great question actually. I have a kind of a split personality by now because
00:28it's such a different structure acting in English and acting in French.
00:33English is more expensive, it's not the same architecture so it feels like it's the same job
00:43but it's a completely different universe and so I react to the same depth and intensity but in
00:53completely different ways. It's like when you fall in love with a person you feel like you're
00:57never going to be in love again and then you fall in love again with the same intensity or higher
01:02but in a completely different way. It's how I feel about both. Before it was just the French but now
01:11they're kind of on the same level for different reasons.
01:13That's a great way of putting it, to understand it, a really good way.
01:16How much were you aware of Bruno before you came? Because he's very well known I guess.
01:22Not so much actually.
01:24I didn't know him. My socialist uncle knew him, a few people in my family but
01:32no, before Melanie brought the book to my attention I didn't know him.
01:35He's like the nice criminal. What is he, the gentleman robber is maybe what they called him?
01:41We had Mesrine at the same period and we called him public enemy number one
01:46and so he was being called public friend number one.
01:49I like that, I wouldn't mind being public friend number one.
01:51Sounds like a lot of responsibility on Instagram though.
01:54Probably yes. Did you learn though much from him maybe about how to get your own way?
02:01Because he seemed to do that a lot.
02:04Yeah, it is inspiring. He lived in times, back then it was different.
02:11Rules were different, everything was more open and possible.
02:14The fact that you could just walk into a jewellery store, take the thing and be like
02:19or enter a prison to just deliver your friend from the main entrance was,
02:26you cannot do that anymore. Everything's more controlled, barricaded.
02:29Can you say that?
02:30When I left the movie, I felt like I wanted to not do something bad
02:37but I kind of wanted to flirt with danger a bit.
02:41And even preparing the movie, I wanted to enter a supermarket and do a fake heist.
02:47With a water gun but I was like, it can be either genius instead of perspiration
02:53or just go to jail and bring problems to the production just for a kiwi on a watermelon.
03:01I love that.
03:05Yeah, I wanted to bring something very sweet and cute
03:07so in case I get arrested or it gets sour, I'm like, I'm doing research for a movie.
03:12Exactly, but you got to do the next best thing.
03:14We get to see you doing it anyway on screen.
03:17It was very cute but we see there's so much heart in this movie
03:21which you just don't expect when you're watching a film about a criminal,
03:25which he is essentially.
03:27And I love the relationship as well that he had with his girlfriend Annie
03:31and you see them taking pictures of each other and things like that
03:35and I'm curious, he would be, if he was still here today,
03:38a very good Instagram boyfriend.
03:39You know what an Instagram boyfriend is?
03:41Would you be a good Instagram boyfriend in the same way?
03:44I think if Annie really needed that, he would do it for her
03:47but he's definitely too rebellious too.
03:50He would hate social media.
03:52He would hate it.
03:53Money's no object for him at this point.
03:55He's stolen so much and he treats himself to different things.
04:01If money was no object, what would you treat yourself to?
04:03I guess I would love to have some kind of
04:09Switzerland-like house lost in a...
04:14Like a chalet?
04:15On a hill.
04:16Not a chalet, not as fancy but something a bit more farmy.
04:21On a hill, I just see grass, I just see a little river
04:25and just permaculture, planting, solar, everything independent.
04:31You're very into nature though, aren't you?
04:33I think you are too.
04:35You are too if you listen to your instincts.
04:38We all are.
04:39We just refuse to see the connection.
04:41But yeah, it's the best way to recharge.
04:46It's the best way to be because we live in the city
04:49and we're never barefoot, for example, on the ground, in the grass.
04:55You know, when you're in Paris or London,
04:57I feel like it's harder to...
04:59You're barefoot at home but not...
05:02And there's a literal energy coming through your feet from the ground
05:08if you take time to just put your feet on the grass.
05:11So that's one of the things we cut ourselves from
05:14and there's many other things like that.
05:18So yeah, nature is important.
05:20I was in Tuscany the other day and I was like,
05:21this is just the greatest.
05:24That's where I would want to be.
05:25Don't say Tuscany in this room.
05:27We haven't had any vacation in months.
05:30It's all right.
05:30Your time is coming.
05:31Your time is coming.
05:32And listen, we have seen you now.
05:34We see you act in English, obviously, I mean in Paris, in French.
05:38And I definitely, like I said,
05:39I think you being in this film would bring it to a huge audience as well.
05:43Do you think you would do any films in any other languages?
05:46Because you know Italian as well, right?
05:49And Spanish, I think.
05:50And also Japanese.
05:51I heard that you have a world of opportunities.
05:55Oh, Japanese, I cannot act in Japanese
05:57but I'm still taking lessons.
06:00I have a private teacher and she comes at home
06:03and we have a two-hour conversation.
06:06I'm still at the beginning.
06:09I've been shooting back to back,
06:10so I haven't been very present lately.
06:13But I'm still at the, you know,
06:15Watashi wa Lukasandes face of just presenting and stuff like that.
06:21But Italian, yeah, I'm definitely considering it
06:23because since I lived in Italy when I was eight,
06:26it comes naturally without an accent.
06:28So I would love to do a, I've been thinking about it lately,
06:33so I will do it.
06:34I wish I could speak other languages.
06:36Just very poor French is what I get.
06:38It's actually amazing how there's something that opens
06:42when you realise, I realised at a young age,
06:46not that I had anything to do with it
06:47because I followed my father who started playing in Parma in Italy
06:51and they put me in an Italian school
06:54which sounded like such a bad idea at the time
06:56but now I'm kind of glad it did.
06:58And in a month I was speaking Italian without an accent
07:02because you're a sponge when you're at that age.
07:06And it opened up something, made me realise how,
07:11you know, you have access to so many,
07:13to so much more in this world, you know.
07:16And we kind of walk through this forest of symbols
07:19and we're trying to decipher them
07:21through the medium of our educations and traumas
07:24and the more language you get,
07:27the more the world starts to, you know,
07:28structure and shape before your eyes.
07:30So I kind of got thirsty for more languages.
07:35Yeah, the world is more open now, I think, to films in other languages.
07:40Yes, I don't think the States are ready for subtitles yet
07:43but they're slowly getting to it.
07:45Well, Parasite won best film at the Oscars, so you never know.
07:49Oh yeah, yeah, absolutely.
07:50So maybe.
07:51I mean, the artist was Mute.
07:55I mean, it was about...
07:56So we're getting there.
07:57So yeah, so it's just little panels and then subtitles.
08:02But yeah, my friends are like, I dubbed it in English
08:06but I think you always lose a bit of the performance.
08:08No, I prefer in the original language.
08:12It's good.
08:12This is how I watch my South Korean movies.
08:15Absolutely.
08:16It's the best.
08:16Same, same.
08:17And they're great as well.
08:18But this is great too, Lucas.
08:20So thank you so much and good luck with it.
08:22Nice to see you again.
08:23Thank you for making time.
08:24Thank you for being here.
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