Interview
Interview: Passionate about football and supporter of PSG, actor Denis Podalydès recently appeared on stage in “The Imaginary Invalid”, discussing with Raï, the iconic captain of Paris Saint-Germain, who learned French by reading Molière. The meeting was animated by the joy of the game as Paris faced Bayern Munich on Tuesday night in the Champions League semi-final.
On the day after PSG’s qualification for the Champions League semi-final, “Le Nouvel Obs” invited actor and director Denis Podalydès, 62 years old, to interact with the emblematic captain of the Paris club, Raï Souza Vieira de Oliveira, known as Raï, 60 years old. To justify this convergence, one could cite the playwright Eugène Ionesco, who wrote in “Notes and Counternotes”: “You have to go to the theater as you go to a football match. The match actually gives us the most accurate idea of what pure theater is: antagonisms in presence, dynamic oppositions, clashes without reason of conflicting wills.“
Dressing room/kit, interval/halftime, ensemble/team … From the stadium to the stage, there is only one step that fan Denis Podalydès, a season ticket holder at Parc des Princes since 2012, has already taken by expanding, in “The Team’s Mentality”, the minutes preceding a decisive free kick. As for Raï, we learn…
