Joined by phone this April 17, 2025 by Pascal Praud, Thierry Lhermitte explained how he had managed to get through his professional life “Without a splendor”.
The 72-year-old actor played in some of the most popular French comedies. And yet, we have not heard of him outside the cinemas.
And there is a reason for that, he explains, on Europe 1. Thierry Lhermitte is quite frank: “We will say that, not only do I have faults, But I don’t open my face muchit must be said “.
Thierry Lhermitte’s technique
In fact, he assures that this is how it does not “don’t give much take “. And for good reason, he said: “I have never put forward my private life“.
No grain to grind, therefore, and Thierry Lhermitte knows it well: “It is sure that if suddenly, I started to decide, it is sure that there are haters “. Indeed, he is convinced of this: “Whatever you say, there are haters who come to rush on it. Because it’s like that today, and it has always been, in life, with just less amplitude in the means of diffusions“.
And he is not the only member of the Splendid to cultivate the mystery around him. Two weeks ago, Christian Clavier confided in Brut, on the same theme. In full promotion for his next film The backpacker With Hakim Jemili, the actor explained why he was not talking about his private life.
-He first assured: “I have a completely natural modesty”. And tackle, in addition: “I hate people who spread because they have had a problem in their lives and who go on television, to you, to explain to you how much … It takes me head that you do not imagine. I will not do it!”
And to ironize: “It’s appalling, ‘I was put on my childhood with two less sizes, I suffered a lot from the feet’. The actors who want to be loved because they suffered like the others … It’s totally bogus “.
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Finally, the colleague of Michel Blanc and Gérard Jugnot said: “We have an incredibly exciting job, totally incomprehensible for the general public, even if the general public loves what we do.”
And to conclude: “We are privileged, we earn our lives very wellwe are protected from a number of things. People think they will lose the public if they will not explain that they are like them in their difficulties. They make politics in the wrong sense of the word! “
