It’s a return that will please Pierre Arditi’s many fans. Next January, the actor, who will celebrate his 80th birthday on December 1, returns to the Hébertot theater where he plays in Le Prix, alongside Ludmila Mikael. “I would play until my last breath because it’s my oxygen”he assures in an interview given to Figaro Magazinethis Friday, November 8.
Pierre Arditi, who got annoyed on the set of C à Vous recently, has evolved a lot during his career. “We endlessly play little pieces of ourselves that we put at the service of another of whom we knew nothing, but who always turns out to be a distant cousin. This is why I spend my life reburying my father and my mother when I have to tear my soul apart. The risk with this method is that it turns into psychodrama: if my tears don't become those of my character, there's no point.”explains the one who confided in his former addiction to games this year.
Pierre Arditi drinks before going on stage
A playing technique that came to him late. When he was younger, Pierre Arditi had a very different way of doing things, as he reveals to our colleagues. “At 37 years old, not knowing how I was going to play a strong emotional scene from Pathe play by Hugh Leonard in which Georges Wilson directed me, I had the habit of drinking half a liter of pear alcohol before going on stage to overcome fear and the other half of the bottle at the end to comfort me for having played it”remembers the actor who revealed that he had fallen for a well-known actress, who is not Évelyne Bouix.
Fortunately, this period is over for Pierre Arditi, who decided himself to put an end to this particularly trying method. “And fine day I said: 'That's enough! If you can't play this without alcohol, stop acting.'. It was like a liberating echo: I no longer delegate something that must come from me. It's not vanity, it's pride.”concludes the actor.
The interview with Pierre Arditi can be found in full in Le Figaro Magazine.
