The Creepsas a world premiere here at the Bifff, puts you in the spotlight by playing your own role and referring to your cult film Highlander. Enjoyable?
“What is interesting is that this film practically belongs to four generations. I have fans who are 12 years old. When I see the little young people in the film who come by running and saying: ‘I saw Christopher Lambert, I saw the guy of Highlander!’ Everyone does not care about their mouths.
In your opinion, why Highlander has become also cult?
“I have no direct response. The only thing that comes to mind is that it is an action film. But it is first of all a romantic film. Immortality is romantic. Immortality is painful. You have to keep moving on, walking with your burden on your shoulders.”Unstable, impatient, impulsive,… is Donald Trump a crazy or genius? “You have to stop believing it more intelligent than it is!”
Not to mention the famous replica “there can only be a”. Does it still pursue you today?
“What am the most amuses me in this replica is when I sign autographs. I write ‘there can be only one, Christopher Lambert. It means’ he can only stay me’! And if I come back to the same. I am stuck with this sentence (smile). But it’s a good sentence!”
We are talking about a “Highlander” reboot with Henri Cavill. Will you be?
“No. I don’t even know where it is for the moment. We don’t know who the director is. We don’t know anything. But they are right. If they do something, you have to do a reboot and not a remake. Where are they going to find Sean Connery? Or Queen’s music? Or the revolutionary imagination of these transitions invented by the Russel Mulcahy director? John Wick?
“With everything that is happening in the world … If we don’t believe people, we’re screwed up”
The message of “The Creeps” is “fight for what you think”. For what do you still want to fight?
“People. With everything that is happening right NOW in the world … If we don’t believe people, we’re screwed up. So they have to believe in them but we must also believe in them. This is what I prefer.”
What scares you, precisely, in 2025?
“Nothing. But I often ask myself the question: ‘Can there be a third world war? Yes, but how? A third nuclear world war is the end of the world. So, there is a chance over a thousand that it happens. Make a third world war, as we waged war in Ukraine, it will be a total misfortune for the destruction of cities, people -militaries or civilians-and we don’t need that. 2025. And contrary to what a lot of people think, whether we like Trump, his sexism, his anti -end, etc., it is not a policy.
And if tomorrow, this third world war is coming, what would your last will be before the end of the world?
“Being with my daughter, Eleanor (whose mother is none other than Diane Lane but who is also always very close to another ex of her father, Sophie Marceau, editor’s note)”) “
Do you have regrets about your career?
“No, but I still have a dream: to continue. If I am retired, I died. Because I don’t like to rest. I like to stay very active. I do cinema, business (he has already invested in Belgium, editor’s note.), Full of things. So that takes care of me.”
Lambert of the decor: between AI and Rock star
A film with Claude Lelouch in project, an Italian filming film or a series document on artificial intelligence, Christophe Lambert is not about to be replaced. Even if today, “We can put my laugh on a phone “he smiles. “”AI, we can no longer escape it but I have hope, provides the actor recently seen in the series Captain Marleau. From the moment it remains positive, there will be no problem. Because there is one thing that cannot be replaced: it is the heart of the actor and his sensitivity. ” In addition to his acting career in Hollywood, Christophe Lambert also dreamed of becoming a rock star like the Queen group (author of the BO ofHighlander). “What I regret in not having made music is not to play an instrument. But I am told that there is no age for that … Come on, ok, this is the next step. We soon meet at the Palais 12 (smile)! “
