PORTRAIT – Endowed with unflagging flexibility, the actor was able to learn Japanese while following Guillaume Senez’s improvisation method to play a father “on the edge” who must keep a low profile in the face of the local authorities.
This article was originally published in Figaro Magazine
“Man is descended from the ape, Tomasi is a man, Tomasi is not descended from the basketball hoop.” If this line from Young Peril from Klapisch is remembered for the agility of the man who served it. That was thirty years ago, but in his 50s, the actor has lost none of his suppleness.
When he strides into his rue de Charonne HQ, with his ultra-tight overallsWith his graying but still tousled hair and sparkling eyes, he displays the same ease with which he portrayed an Erasmus student, a gadjo, an Arnacœura concert pianist, Molière, Lupin, Eiffel or Aramis. For Romain Duris is a physical actor who moves through life and his career with the mastery of a high-flying acrobat.
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