I am the poet of the high wire - I never do stunts; I do theatrical performances.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I was born in a world of opera, theatre, films, poetry, art, and therefore, out of the wire, I made a stage. That's why they call me a high wire artist.
Poetry has, in a way, been my bridge to my acting career.
I was trained as an actress. But I wasn't a very convincing actress, so I started doing punk poetry and then fell into doing stand-up.
I first got involved in theater in 1968, at the height of a social tumult. I was a poet.
Work in the theater sharpened my verse and my cinema.
I'm a poet first and foremost, before the modelling.
As a stunt guy, you become a mini-director. You're talking to actors about performance.
On the high wire, within months, I'm able to master all the tricks they do in the circus, except I am not satisfied.
I've always got into stunts; even at drama school, I was falling down trap doors, and swinging in on ropes.
Constantly risking absurdity and death whenever he performs above the heads of his audience, the poet, like an acrobat, climbs on rhyme to a high wire of his own making.