Normand Brathwaite, who is starring in the play Sainte-Marie-la-Mauderne all summer, is considering using hypnosis to better manage the stress that is making him ill before each performance.
Past Sophie Durocher and Richard Martineau for the recording of the podcast «Apéro piquant», the actor discovered by Denise Filiatraut (in «Chez Denise») at the age of 19 can look back on a career rich in stage experience, he must always have a seal with him before entering the crime scene.
In the past he sometimes wanted to cut short his animations in front of an audience at the last second, but he was still happy to get involved in the theatre, especially for this adaptation of the Ken Scott film The Great Seduction. , starring Michel Rivard and Fayolle Jean Jr.
If he had been “blacker”, would he have succeeded? We have to laugh at everyone Normand was almost “shocked” several times before shows…
The “n-word”
Published in 2012, Normand Brathwaite’s biography, autographed by journalist Isabelle Massé, is much more than a book about his life or career that the actor entrusted to the animation couple. He actually wanted to tell his origins and the life of his parents, who were a strangely mixed couple in the 1940s at the time.
And it was absolutely necessary that the “N-word” be in the title of his biography, entitled “Working like a Negro without getting tired”, as it is in some classics of literature, including “Comment faire l’amour à a Negro without getting tired” by the immortal Dany Laferrière, to whom he winks.
For him, the “N-word” is unproblematic if it is well contextualized. He also insisted that “the problem with the word ‘Negro’ is that we always precede it with the words host of . . . ,” he hinted at QUB Radio’s mic.
In addition, it is necessary for him to laugh at everything, especially at minorities, because it is a sign that they exist. “We joke about gays because we think it’s normal, just like we think it’s normal to be redheads. I’m not afraid of a society that makes jokes about a minority or people who are different. I’m scared of a society that doesn’t do that anymore,” he said.
However, he acknowledged that racism exists in Quebec, although it is less severe than elsewhere in the world and is decreasing. He is therefore convinced that he would not have had the career he would have built if his skin had been darker.