1993 Articles

<body topmargin=0 leftmargin=0 marginheight=0 marginwidth=0> <table cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0 border=0 height="100%"><tr> <td valign="top" width=130 BGCOLOR="#000000" TEXT="#F7F7FF"> <div> <IMG SRC="47977cf0.gif" border=0 width="119" height="207" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> </td> <td valign="top" BGCOLOR="#000000" TEXT="#F7F7FF"> <div> 1993 Articles</div> <bR> <bR> <bR> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div> <B>INTERVIEW 24 IMAGES No. 65. FEB.-MAR. 1993</B><FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#9900CC" FACE="Arial" ><B> </B></FONT></div> <bR> <bR> <bR> <div> <IMG SRC="21920d80.jpg" border=0 width="288" height="216" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">    <IMG SRC="21820d80.jpg" border=0 width="288" height="216" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <bR> <bR> <div> <B>He came out of the National School of Theatre in 1986 and has not stopped working since. After some work in the theatre, his premiére vocation including playing Shakespeare's Romeo, television then the cinema lifted Roy Dupuis to the status of those who are the stars of our screens. Double privilege of a spoiled child: to have drawn the attention of the critics and the most informed film enthusiasts with his first role in the cinema given by Michel Langlois, in 1988, with Sortie 234, just as he conquered the popular medium of a vast public, that of the teleseries. Finally his performance in Jean Beaudin's Being At Home witb Claude brought him critical acclaim. But Roy Dupuis defends as well the preferences of the public as well as the other and is equally proud of all the admiration, the more conventional as well as the more oblique.: "The critics are heard, what they say, they are significant ", he concedes. But also: "I like that that the world likes me, I come from the theatre, I need applause." </B></div> <bR> <div> <B>Roy Dupuis evokes the various characters whom he portrays as if he had met them in flesh and bone. </B></div> <bR> <div> <B>"As for Yves (Being at Home...), I haven't finished exploring this character." Intimate knowledge which sticks to him like the skin and which, one supposes with the very respectful way in which he speaks about it, regularly come to revisit him, to question him on his work and himself undoubtedly, to propose warnings to him, perhaps, in the heedlessness of success and the tumults of the trade. </B></div> <bR> <div> <B>Thus this astonishing echo of Roy-Ovila in answer to a commonplace (nevertheless relevant), question about the history made in Nouvelle-France of Les Filles de Caleb and the foreseeable success of the broadcast on the other side of the Atlantic: "It is while being most local, that one is likely to become international." </B></div> <bR> <div> <B>International, beautiful Roy Dupuis - as Suzanne Lévesque would say - hopes to become. If he does not cease praising those who trusted him and to whom he returns this confidence, Michel Langlois, Jean Beaudin, he mentions with a sparkling eye some famous names which sound like promises of revival and expatriation: " I would like that to work with Beineix, with Zulawski. " But while waiting for the unforeseeable future, two things ensure Roy Dupuis, for today, a choice of roles for the large screen as well as the small: The continuation of the teleseries Scoop (in which he created, although with conviction and savoirfaire, the most conventional of his characters), then the release of Cap Torment of Michel Langlois. Roy Dupuis plays Alex, a provocative strapping man, an eternal adolescent who hurts all on his passage, a deviant and sometimes dangerous man-child. When we ask him if there is a little bit of Roy in Alex (which is a no-no, I admit), the actor simply responds, conscious of not expanding too much on his real life experience which belongs to only him : </B></div> <bR> <div> <B>"Michel (Langlois) got inspiration from me", and we acknowledge this prudness to protect us from the tarty sentimentality of a bad seed who turned out well. ( Note I had some trouble translating this sentence - "Not really sure this is the true sense... it's written in a weird French…!!"] </B></div> <bR> <div> <B>Decency or lack of enthusiasm for the word? Roy Dupuis always speaks little, and then with reserve (but I assure you one understands everything he says). Generally, moreover, he is not an actor of words, even if the feverish tirades and the tight dialogues of Being At Home with Claude showed it in a more lyric play, where the language broke in flights. He will say himself: " I am an actor as instinctive as physical, I move well, I like to move. " </B></div> <bR> <div> <B>This physical presence earned him the title of a young athletic premier. An image that he continues to wear in "real life", a winner, an image that sometimes leads him to revel in it without shame ("to be continually compared to Depardieu, Brando, James Dean..."), and then he leaves it behind for a moment, just enough to put small holes in his ego and put on his humility hat : "An actor is a servant... I am a servant."</B></div> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div> <B>  <IMG SRC="4772f1f0.gif" border=0 width="303" height="31" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B><B><IMG SRC="4772f1f0.gif" border=0 width="303" height="31" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B><B> </B></div> <bR> <bR> <bR> <div> <B> 7 JOURS JULY 9, 1993                                                      </B><A HREF="id99.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="7 Jours July 9, 1993"><U><B><IMG SRC="16266330.gif" border=0 width="102" height="51" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></U></A></div> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> </td> </tr></table></body>