Extract from an interview with G. Depardieu about his work with Dr Tomatis
In this video, Gérard Depardieu describes how he overcame his speech disorder with the Tomatis method. He explains how the method helped him improve his speaking and communication skills, and how it changed his life.
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In this video, Gérard Depardieu shares his personal experience of the Tomatis method and its effect on his speaking and communication skills.
He explains that when he arrived in Paris at the age of 17, he was illiterate, stammered, was highly emotional, and had only a handful of words to express himself with.
He struggled to express himself, and when he made a short film, Alcibiade et Socrate, Jacques Doniol-Valcroze had to dub him. But Jean-Laurent Cochet's drama classes saved him. Cochet introduced him to Musset, Marivaux and Corneille, and taught him the importance of keeping silent in the spotlight.
Cochet also introduced him to Dr Alfred Tomatis, who was working on the link between language and hearing, and who discovered that he had hearing problems.
Thanks to the Tomatis method, which uses specially filtered music to stimulate the muscles of the ear and the auditory cortex, Depardieu was able to improve his speaking and communication skills, control his emotional over-reactions and develop his memory.
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In their own words
“Kevin was very receptive, even though classical music wasn't really his favourite kind of music.”
“This is the result of your support and your method, which really took a weight off my mind and helped Hakim move forward and gain confidence in himself.”
“My dad and my friends tell me I've become more mature, that I express myself much better, that my questions are more thought through.”