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What was the defining moment in your development as an actor?
Robert Belanger
I think it was Urban Tales in 2005. It was a pivotal point for me as an actor and as a writer. I gave myself permission to do Scotstown [NDLR : pièce au ton cru, voire provocateur, qui a fait grand bruit à sa présentation au Théâtre La Licorne]. From the moment people saw that, people started offering me things as a writer and actor. I had never lacked work, but now I began to have a choice.
We met your “Monuncles” in a delicious documentary a few years ago. When will you introduce us to your “monuncles”?
Anne Marie Grenier
If there is a Matantes project one day, I think it has to be a girl who does it. I visited the “Monuncle of Quebec” to demystify him. A girl could act like a mother. That would make more sense. A girl who maybe feels like a matron… And the mom, she often comes to my rooms and I find her very funny. It's anecdotal, but after one of my shows I was talking to people and there was someone who told a lady he was surprised she liked her age [mon spectacle]. She replied, “My boy, I saw L'Osstidcho.” Just because the people are older doesn't make it a narrow-minded audience.
When will you write and direct your first film?
Gilles Cadieux
Given how many years it will take to develop this, I'm not sure I have the patience. You never know, but I find the process tedious. When I have an idea, I seem to get impatient and need to implement it a little faster.
What type of hunting did you do in 2023 and what results did you get?
Sylvain Brière
I was deer hunting but didn't harvest this year. With 99 shows in a year there isn't much time for hunting, so it wasn't fruitful. I had about three days to get there. But I have already booked my hunting and fishing weeks for next fall and promise myself something better!
Like every human being, you experience ups and downs. What makes you feel good when things are average?
Annie Caya
I run into the forest. I have to go outside and do very specific things: make wooden cords, tend a forest, work in the garden. Planting a garden and tending flowerbeds brings me a lot of good things in life. That's what I've become! I also start with small trees. Early in the season I find things in my flowerbeds and don't pull them all out. I'm trying to figure out what it is. […] Every year I replant about fifty trees that I grow in pots. I transplant them in the countryside in my area. I have lots of space. Sometimes I also collect oak acorns and put them in places where I think they would take a tree. On vacant land or elsewhere…
Seriously, tell us what you think of your friend Martin Matte's talk show. Should he pull the plow or do a higher quality second season?
Yves
I would like a second season. Starting a talk show is hard work. It has gotten better and will continue to get better, and I think we need to give more than two or three shows, more than one season, to give the world a chance to get their point of view. Especially live. The audience has also changed over the years, maybe we don't have the patience anymore… Now everything is edited like this: we see variety shows that last 30 or 45 minutes, but they filmed them for two hours. Maybe we can go back to real live music every now and then and have to relearn how to listen to live music.
On tour all year round with his show Delicate. The final season of the Léo series continues on January 10th on TVA.