Il faut sauver le soldat Ryan : Retour sur l'audition de Stéphane Cornicard

Stéphane Cornicard, comédien, a joué dans "Il faut sauver le soldat Ryan". Il revient sur son audition.

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00:00 Everyone saw it.

00:02 I don't know anyone who didn't see "We Must Save Soldier Ryan".

00:06 The audition was really special.

00:14 In the scene I play, I'm in a house whose facade was completely blown up by a bomb.

00:23 So my wife and two children live in that place.

00:27 Tom Hanks arrives with his group of GIs, of soldiers.

00:31 And I ask him to take the children to put them in safety.

00:36 Because I know the Germans are still there.

00:38 There are snipers everywhere. I'm afraid for the children.

00:40 I ask them to put them in safety.

00:42 And so the audition, well, several auditions,

00:45 because I went through four auditions for the role.

00:48 The first audition, in fact, you had to be on a chair, standing on a chair,

00:54 pleading with the American soldiers to take the children.

01:00 So, imagine, you're on a desk and you have to go completely into this pain,

01:08 in this fear, in this panic of not having slept.

01:11 I started completely, I went all the way, all the way, all the way.

01:15 And I think that's what there is, that plus the fact of being Norman myself,

01:19 I think that's what made them call me for a second, they called me for a third.

01:25 And in the fourth, it was Steven Spielberg who was there.

01:27 It was...

01:33 They're everywhere, you've gone through Wallonia, you have to take the children.

01:39 It's going to saturate the sound.

01:46 It makes me happy, it makes me humble at the same time,

01:49 because I come from a small village in Normandy,

01:52 and I managed to work with one of the greatest in cinema.

01:57 cinéma.