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'Heated Rivalry' star François Arnaud gets ready for Saint Laurent's FW26 show during Paris fashion week. He looks back at spending his summers in France and shares his favorite things to do in the city of love. François also dishes on getting cast for Heated Rivalry and the magnitude of the show's success. After glam, François steps into his head-to-toe Saint Laurent outfit, topped off with a long leather trench coat.
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00:00tremendous pressure to be a hockey player actually especially like working on those legs which
00:05I'm not gonna let you see because I lost my tree trunks since that I had them
00:10you
00:15Oh, hi Vanity Fair. My name is Francois Arnaud and we're in Paris.
00:20Tonight and we're gonna go to the Saint Laurent show. Come in.
00:25So this is my room. Beautiful hotel room. It's got everything I need. Some chocolate.
00:30There, sleep mask, champagne, whatever else you want. I've never been to...
00:35any sort of fashion show in my whole life. I've seen them on TV and in the press.
00:39Yeah.
00:40I don't know. I don't even know where I'm seated. I don't know anything.
00:43This is my beautiful look for tonight.
00:45I think it's beautiful. Are you telling me?
00:49So my look for...
00:50I think it's very Saint Laurent. Elegant and classic, but also sort of bold.
00:54It's very...
00:55the American gigolo to me. A bit 80s, like retro, futuristic. I love it.
01:00I love all the different patterns. The shirt has a slight pattern. The pants too.
01:04I think I could pull this off.
01:05on a normal day. On a special normal day.
01:09I flew in from LA.
01:10I got in yesterday and I'm leaving tomorrow. I feel pretty cracked out with jet lag.
01:15But I got a three hour nap in today. I cancelled the meeting and I napped. And um...
01:20I feel all the bad for it. But I do need the eye patches.
01:23I brought this...
01:25This book.
01:26That I read about 10 pages of before I passed out.
01:30It had lots of little surprises for me. A little um... I don't even know what...
01:35What that's made of.
01:36Maybe a...
01:37Groundhog?
01:38Yeah.
01:40That is the invitation. And signed by Anthony Vaccarello, who I'm a big fan of.
01:45I think I should frame it and use the groundhog frame somehow. Right?
01:50Like this.
01:55Okay.
01:56So my groomer Charlie is here. And uh... you can follow me to the bathroom. And I'll show
02:00you what I do to get ready for something like this.
02:02Hey Charlie.
02:03How are ya?
02:04Good.
02:05Welcome to Paris.
02:07How are you doing?
02:08Nice to see you.
02:09Nice to see you.
02:10Yeah, I'm great.
02:10How are you doing?
02:11Let's do it.
02:12Not that you need much.
02:13Well...
02:14You're too...
02:15I'm fine.
02:16Okay, so we're just really finishing off. We're just really hydrating the skin. He's
02:19had his eye gel.
02:20Trying to keep it really simple. We don't really use a lot of makeup on him. And we're
02:24just going to finish off his hair.
02:25I've had this my whole life. I've had really dark, dark circles since I was two.
02:30I was very tired, two years old.
02:31Once we came in, I had Simon and Spam.
02:33Same as for him?
02:34Yeah.
02:35Yeah.
02:36Do I need that?
02:37What is it there for?
02:38It just gets rid of the trough.
02:40In the darkness.
02:41Wow.
02:42That seems intense.
02:43So what does this do?
02:44It just tears...
02:45It's the puffiness out of the skin, especially if the boys have been flying around.
02:50Kind of...
02:51What puffiness?
02:52What puffiness do you see?
02:53I've been using red light...
02:55therapy for a few years now.
02:56I did a TV show in the desert and my skin was just wrecked.
03:00from it.
03:01A dermatologist recommended red light therapy before it was like a thing.
03:04So I've been doing it...
03:05I did it before.
03:05For everyone else.
03:06If you stay consistent with it, I find that it really helps with redness.
03:10Redness.
03:11And redness.
03:12I did a half of red.
03:15The success of Heated Rivalry has taken us all by surprise the magnitude of it.
03:20I mean, I always believed in it.
03:21We all were so proud of it.
03:23It's just nice to get...
03:25grateful to react so positively to something that we're so happy and proud to have made.
03:30I believed in the project from the start, but to say that I could foresee the...
03:35magnitude of the reaction, I think it would be cocky.
03:40People seeing emotionally available men.
03:43I think most people find...
03:45I find that quite rare and refreshing.
03:47For my storyline in particular, there's something...
03:50about yearning and an impossible love that I think will impossible...
03:55that turns out to be, you know, not so impossible.
03:57That is appealing.
03:58I think it's both...
04:00realistic enough.
04:01We're committed to the reality of it, but also it's aspirational.
04:04Listen, I...
04:05I think when you do any kind of fiction project, you hope that people can...
04:10connect with it, but to think that it's affected positively...
04:15really...
04:16real-life athletes, it's just so...
04:19heartwarming.
04:20and comforting.
04:21What I love most about Scott is how ready he is.
04:25to live this moment.
04:26And there's something beautiful about his willingness to commit.
04:30to the moment, to someone else.
04:31It's still a work in progress for him.
04:33He's still, like, catching up.
04:35to that readiness.
04:36But I find that really moving.
04:38I actually spent...
04:40most of my summers and Christmases in France as a kid.
04:44And Brittany until I was...
04:45six or seven.
04:46And then my dad has been in the south of France since then.
04:50Do you speak French?
04:51Of course I speak French.
04:52With a name like Francois.
04:53So you want to hear some French?
04:55Yes.
04:56One in a...
04:57in a Kibbekoa accent or in a French accent?
04:58French accent.
04:59French?
05:00Yeah.
05:00D'accord.
05:01Tu veux que je...
05:02Qu'est-ce que tu veux que je te dise?
05:03Oh, it's very nice.
05:04Not a Kibbekoa.
05:05Okay.
05:06Okay.
05:07Okay.
05:08Okay.
05:09Okay.
05:10C'est...
05:11C'est quand même différent, non?
05:12Yeah.
05:13C'est...
05:14C'est quand même différent, non?
05:15Yeah.
05:15C'est quand même si tu veux.
05:16Oh, c'est qui.
05:17Growing up mostly in...
05:18...
05:19...
05:20...
05:20Canada but partly in France. I just always treated the two different acts as almost like two different
05:25languages like two dialects I would click into one or the other people used to make fun of me as a kid in Canada
05:30for coming back to school in September and having a snobby French accent.
05:35And then you know at the start of the summer I would come back to France and people would make fun of me.
05:40For having a kibikwa accent so I just kind of learned to differentiate the two and just like drop in.
05:45Do you want to give us some French charlie?
05:46La dishieronne s'il-vous-plait?
05:47La dishieronne s'il-vous-plait?
05:48D'accord, c'est parfait.
05:49Bien.
05:50You should know how to act. You should let the other person ask that.
05:53That's just a neglected bar.
05:55I think my favorite thing to do in Paris is just walk. You can walk around and you always like...
06:00You don't have to... I don't make any decisions. You just stumble upon incredible looking things.
06:05You just... things magically appear to you. And then when you've walked in on...
06:10My second favorite thing is to eat.
06:12Oui, bonjour. C'est possible d'avoir une salade César au poulet.
06:15S'il-vous-plait, à la chambre.
06:16Merci.
06:17Merci.
06:20It's a pressure to be a hockey player, actually. Especially like working on those legs, which...
06:24I'm not gonna let you...
06:25see because I lost my tree trunks since that I had on the show. What I told Jacob...
06:30When he called me to do the show, I was like, I can't believe you're calling the one Canadian actor who can't...
06:35skate properly. But it turns out he also had called Hudson who couldn't skate properly.
06:40So we... and then a Texan who had never seen ice. We trained...
06:45intensively, but we didn't have that much time. We only had about three weeks before the show...
06:50the shoot started, but we did all the hockey stuff last. So...
06:55we were able to still train throughout.
06:57Oh, God. I ate too much in Paris. These pants are too tight.
06:59I find that acting is just a great way to be yourself, actually.
07:04It's like an outlet to be yourself through someone else.
07:07I think the hardest part...
07:16you
07:09about being an actor is just like how terrifying it is every time you take a
07:14new project on you know to like accept that like fear and embrace it
07:19actually because that's where the thrill comes in and I think we're the best most challenging and
07:24rewarding acting is done okay so now I'm gonna go get dressed and to do that
07:29I have to take this robe off and pen away
07:34so that's the look
07:38I feel like I'm in the main
07:39I know I'm seeing my co-stars Robbie GK and Connor Story
07:44she's so comfortable I don't think I expected to feel this comfortable at a fashion show and I have my
07:49mom and my heart too let's go running let's go
07:54I'm ready for this okay thank you Vinny fair it was a good time
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