Mathilde Seigner doesn’t hold her tongue in her pocket. And when it comes to talking about one of the most “humiliating” roles she has had to play in her career, the actress doesn’t mince her words…
If Mathilde Seigner is now a famous figure on the small and big screen in France, she had to go through less rewarding stages to get here. The actress, now 58 years old, spoke without filter to the microphone of Europe 1 about her first roles on television…
Mathilde Seigner: this role “exceptionally worthless” but “well paid”
In the early 90s, Emmanuelle Seigner’s sister was able to land a role in the AB Productions sitcom, Divorce case. “It was exceptionally bad… I was bad, but it was work, money“, she said frankly on the Thomas Isle show on Europe 1.
The following year, Mathilde Seigner also appeared in the famous sitcom Club Dorothée, also produced by AB Productions, Hello muscle guys. A role which was, again, far from the characters she dreamed of playing, but which helped her financially: “It was well paid for us at the time, we earned 1,000 francs“.
The actress, fan of a famous France 3 show, therefore absolutely does not regret this experience. “It’s good, they are good schools, because we are bad, we are humiliated and therefore we start hard“, she assured. She had to wait a few years before she could then act in the cinema, first in 1994 in the short film by Melvil Poupaud Mac Donald Boulevard, then a few months later in the film The Smile by Claude Miller.
Mathilde Seigner, child of the ball: “I didn’t want to be locked up in a golden prison”
The actress also grew up in the comedy world since she is the granddaughter of Louis Seigner and the niece of Françoise Seigner, who were both members of the Comédie-Française. However, she did not want to follow in their footsteps and become a resident of this institution.
“I didn’t want to be locked up in a house, in a very, very gilded prison, but prison nonetheless. The job is already very difficult on the outside. Malice, the environment is complicated. So in a monument, with the same people all the time…”, confided the one who had been able to see behind the scenes of the Comédie-Française during her childhood.
