Des barreaux au tapis rouge | Dylan Robert | TEDxPanthéonSorbonne
[Music] First of all, well, I'm sure they don't know for very long. I learned to read, but I set myself a challenge: I'm going to read tonight. I'm always having fun, as always. Do you know the 3rd arrondissement of Marseille? For those who don't, I was telling you about it, how I got out of there, and also my story. To begin, I'm Design Robert, a young actor, and I'd like to tell you about my childhood. At the age of seven and a half, eight years old, I moved from my small neighborhood to the 3rd arrondissement. I went to several schools, I was often expelled. It wasn't very easy. Schools there aren't the best. There, you start making acquaintances. I was enrolled in different sports clubs. I started doing stupid things, and how things turned out in the neighborhood. At the age of sixteen and a half, I was incarcerated. I celebrated my seventeenth birthday there. That's where I met Médine, an educator who... She was handling my Kstr release project. If I'm not even thanked, she calls me and tells me about a film being shot in Marseille. Originally, I wanted to be in it because of the atmosphere, but Emilie was with me. I was preparing my release project, pushing the application forward by including the casting in the release project for May. I wanted to get out earlier. She thought it would be okay, but after being released, I went to the casting call. I met Sandrine Lapuyade, the casting director. She called me back. I was meeting Jean-Bernard Marlins, the film's director. That's when he told me we were going to the theater workshop. I knew what character she was going to play. Five years of rehearsals. I remember 15 years ago. You have a childhood memory that I had already seen. My style was lost sight of. Then I said, "Go for it, I'll give it a try." I had never tried the camera before. I went for it, and after several takes, the first prison asked me to run, and I said, "Go for it!" He was doing push-ups and wherever I went, I went and I had to join my colleagues and all that, they came, it happened, more than several awards, I was good, more and more, I did it as accurately as possible and good, like in interviews, and I finished filming and then I went back to prison to do my sentence and that's where in prison I hear about it all, I tell myself, I hear, I tell myself, wow, that could take the place of my film, I have time, the Cannes Critics' Week and all that, and I tell myself, damn, that, that can be done, and from that there's a way, I get out, life, you see, and and then and and then and then and then, yes, I'm eligible for release, I'm eligible for release and all that, and I go from bars, red carpet, lose it, I make a second film in my head and it's not over right away, after that, going from festival to festival, I receive, I receive an invitation for the César revelations, I say, it's magnificent, it's Elodie Bouchez, plus my godmother And then I get to the Césars, I hear, I hear ours, Kenza, for Best Female Newcomer, you know, it's something, there are some, and a César for Shérazade, and then comes the Best Male Newcomer, presented by Caen, updated standards, and when I hear my name, I can't even believe it, I'm shocked, I'm getting slapped around, everyone's yelling at me, "Get up, get up!" and all that, I ca n't get up, and then, and then I take my courage in both hands, I go to Kad Merad, and like they do, one day Hakim congratulates and then monkeys take, I take my César on Thursday, which takes my heart out, and all that, I go downstairs with my César, and it's a bit dazed, I was listening to what was happening there, and I hear the Best Newcomer, first film, Jean-Bernard Marlins, you see, we got three Césars, we did a heist, Marseilles style, I lost it, I said, wow, that's something! Crazy, meanwhile I'm writing. For a long time I thought it was a stroke of luck, a happy accident. I've realized now that it's a matter of encounters, yeah, but also of willpower, of seizing the opportunities given to me, of giving everything to succeed. So go for it, dream! [Applause]