The chef decorator of the « count of Monte-Cristo » returns to his high school in Saint-Denis-Liberation
The eyes of the small forty high school students suddenly start to shine. Stéphane Taillasson has just left her bag the two Césars of the best sets, won for The three musketeers: d'Artagnan In 2024, And Count of Monte-Cristo in 2025. This Friday, March 14, the classroom is agitated and a few amazed high school students ask: « Are we going to be able to touch them? » They will even have the opportunity to take a picture of themselves with and make videos for their social networks. « It was important to me to come here to share this with the students and show them that everything is possible, even when coming from the suburbs », Explains the decorator, back in his former establishment, the Lycée Paul-Eluard in Saint-Denis. He then spoke with first and terminal students in theater specialty.
A real star of the day in the school establishment, Stéphane Taillasson takes the time to answer all the questions of young people. « Who wants to make a decorator? » he launches. One hand rises in the assembly. He tells anecdotes from the shooting of Three musketeers To capture attention. The film is mainly shot in natural decor, « A major difficulty ».
This privileged exchange with Stéphane Taillasson is the fruit of the program An artist at school. Created thirteen years ago, it allows « Make young people discover trades, whom they do not know or who are not necessarily taught in schools », Indicates Juliette Pannequin, project coordinator, who, since its creation, has enabled nearly 25,000 students throughout the French territory to meet more than 250 artists. The association has established a partnership with the Césars Academy since 2021.
« I never thought I would one day have seen someone who won a Caesargets Ayoub, which follows the theater specialty. I dream of working in the world of cinema. It really makes me happy to see him there and knowing that he was in the same place as me a few years ago. ” « I would like to thank you for coming here because we are often forgotten and lowered when we come from the suburbs », launches another high school student at the microphone. Enough to move Stéphane Taillasson: “I rub shoulders with a lot of Parisians and they all ask me how I live in Saint-Denis. I am very attached to it, it is a superb city. You have to believe in yourself and work a lot. ”
The decorator chief did all his schooling in Saint-Denis. His scientific baccalaureate in his pocket, he first wishes to be a sports teacher, then took a passion for cinema during an internship at Paris 8 University – « I fell in love». His first film as a chef decorator is Tour by Mathieu Amalric, released in 2010. Then he meets Martin Bourboulon (director of the three musketeers and the count of Monte-Cristo, editor's note) For the film Dad and mom (2015). The continuation, Stéphane Taillasson tells it in a sentence, under a thunderous applause: « I am a Dionysian with two Césars, who simply works. »
