Max Baissette de Malglaive (Corto in Toulouse Lautrec) talks about his illness which “impacted his size”
Max Baissette de Malglaive, the interpreter of Corto in Toulouse Lautrec, the new series of TF1, was very sick when he was a child. The actor returned to his illness.
Marie Antoinette (Ness Merad – is she related to Kad Merad?), Charlie (Juliette Halloy), Roxana (Aminthe Audiard), Hugo (Nolann Duriez), Reda (Adil Dehbi), Hippolyte Zaremba (Jean Philippe), Maelle (Margaux Lenot), Victoire (Chine Thybaud) and Corto (Max Baissette de Malglaive) form the band Toulouse Lautrec high schoolthe new TF1 series, inspired from a true story and broadcast from this Monday, January 9 (our opinion). Max Baissette of Malglaive is not unknown to the general public. He appeared in the cinema in the films Versailles by Pierre Schoeller, in 2008, then The Immortal (2009), Starting case by Lionel Steketee and lately Mr. I know everything by Arnaud Ducret where he played a boy with Asperger’s syndrome.
“I don’t see it as a handicap”
At 22 years, Max Baissette of Malglaive experienced the disease, with leukemia very early in his life. “I was ill very young at two and a half years old, and a relapse at four years old. I have very few memories.” recalled the actor in an interview given to the to place THATyou. “I don’t see it as a handicap, that’s a big word. This does not prevent me from living normally today, I am completely cured. It especially impacted my height, I am quite small, I am less than 1.60 m. But at the same time, it opened the doors of the cinema to me, because I only play younger roles. It is a misfortune for a happiness. This allowed me to play in beautiful films. Maybe that’s what keeps me working. I’m not complaining much, but it’s true that in private life, I would have preferred to be 1.95m” he blurts out laughing. “Sometimes, I have moments when I would prefer to be grown up and not have done a movie. But well, it depends on the day, the…”
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Two books by his mother on leukemia Max Baissette of Malglaive
“Leukemia was my great misfortune, and making cinema my great happiness“, summed up Max Baissette de Malglaive to our colleagues at Parisian. From this ordeal, his mother Gaëlle de Malglaive had drawn two books When the night is covered with day, I will be discharged from the hospital (2006) and Santa Claus is a guess. From the darkness of resuscitation to the steps of Cannes (2011).