Actress and author Marcia Pilote confided in Marie-Claude Barrette during her appearance on the podcast Open your game, She had long felt separated from the life she had dreamed of.
“It was difficult for me to admit that I didn't have the professional life that I deserved and wanted. That’s why I started writing and titled “Life as I love it.” From that moment on, I saw the light at the end of the tunnel,” she revealed to her longtime friend.
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Marcia Pilote, who became an actress by accident early in her life (Sonatina, Chambres en ville), also admitted that she sacrificed her professional life for a few years and refused attractive contracts that she wanted for the sake of a part his family. which has always been a priority.
“I wanted to be honest and consistent in the life I wanted to lead and that I created for myself. […] It delayed me in the end. “I haven't developed the way I wanted to,” she said, indicating that she had long felt like she was wasting her talent and being a “loser,” especially when she saw how people with her where she started her career, broke through and gained popularity.
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Marie-Claude Barrette during her conversation with Marcia Pilote.
“It was very difficult, very painful because you feel like you will never find your place. I didn't know what I wanted to do in life, or I knew what I wanted to do, but I was “not getting anywhere,” she added, specifying that she had truly found her place barely eight years ago.
Black Sheep Syndrome
During the podcast, actress Marie-Claude Barrette also confided that she had stood out in her family since childhood, admitting that she had bothered them with her liveliness and her great need to be seen and heard.
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“The paradox was that I had really fun parents who were very family-oriented, but they were parents who were time-limited with a child like me,” she said, implying that she often pushed them to their limits .
“I told myself that I was the problem. […] I was very lively, very enthusiastic. I think if I had been an only child it wouldn't have been the same at all,” added the actress, who is the second-to-last child in a family of four sisters and who was often told she was “too much.”
“It wasn't long ago that I went from 'too much' to 'very much.' Because that stays with you throughout your life. “When you are too much, you try to be less, but you can't be less,” she said, believing that there had been about ten since that conversion… Over the years she had learned to become more and more of herself love.