She has been shining for several years on the big and small screen – this will be the case again next Friday on Max in “A Devoted Friend”, a mini-series about a false victim of the Bataclan –, but those who have been able to appreciate the fanciful and joyful nature of Laure Calamy on stage knows how much the actress is missed. Since “The Game of Love and Chance”, in 2018, which earned her the Molière for actress, she has continued filming and has only stepped on stage for readings.
So when Léna Bréban — director hailed in 2022 by several Molières for her jubilant “As you like it”, a joyful and musical Shakespeare currently to be seen at the Hébertot theater and whose “Sans famille” resumes on November 20 at the Comédie Française — wrote her adaptation of the comic strip “Peau d’homme” into a musical comedy with her in mind, she knows full well that the actress, her friend since the conservatory, will not be able to.