Not only does actor Benjamin Voisin, 25, profess to remember little about the Lost Illusions shoot, it’s not even clear if he’s seen the finished film. When the question is posed, he avoids answering outright, indicating he doesn’t enjoy watching himself
Just over a year ago, French actor Benjamin Voisin told me his life was “a series of fiery whims”, a quote he attributed to the 19th-century critic Charles Saint-Beuve. The young actor, already exhibiting an unmistakable star power, was sitting alongside Felix Lefebvre, his co-star in Francois Ozon’s, in which they played teenagers who fall in love on holiday in Normandy: two young, good-looking guys with the world at their feet, alternately waxing philosophical and cracking each other up.
These whims have carried him a long way. At this year’s Cesar awards – the French Oscars – Voisin was named best male newcomer for his lead role in, adapted by writer-director Xavier Giannoli from the classic Balzac novel, and opening here next week. He is, however, gratified about having his whole family witness his success, “not only my parents but my grandparents. too”.As an interview subject, Voisin is bashful in some ways but confident in others, and above all filled with enthusiasm – an endearing mix of traits that carries over into his performance as Lucien and makes the character hard to dislike, for all his unscrupulous behaviour. It’s not hard to see why he was given the part within 24 hours of auditioning .
When I speak to her separately, de France in turn has high praise for Voisin, who is in nearly every scene. “When he starts, he’s very pure, he’s living in this natural environment, and then he sullies his conscience, he becomes the bete noire of Paris,” she says.
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