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Finally, Corentin Fila Is Just Acting

“Finally I’m just acting.” Corentin Fila remembers thinking it five minutes into his first day on The White Lotus, after months of hearing everyone else talk about the project before he had even started filming it. Fila came to the profession without much of a plan. At 24, after seeing a Peter Brook production with South African actors at the Bouffes du Nord, he enrolled at Cours Florent. Two years later, he was making his first film with André Téchiné. Before that came boxing, an injury, three years of economics he readily admits left him with very little knowledge of economics, and a long list of jobs including construction and bartending.