Guest on the set of “It’s yours” this Wednesday, Pierre Arditi spoke with emotion about the determining influence of his father in his artistic career, as he prepares to return to the stage alongside Ludmila Mikaël in “Le Prix”, after his troubles health.
A visionary father in the 60s
Son of Georges Arditi (1914-2012), communist painter and theater decorator, Pierre Arditi benefited from rare paternal support for the time. “At the time, the parents of my classmates from high school asked their children to be doctors, lawyers, everything like that, not actors”he confides to Anne-Elisabeth Lemoine. A period when the profession of actor was still poorly regarded: “I was asked, but what do you do, I’m an actor? Oh yes, and apart from that?” After a brief stint in an insurance company, his father told him this sentence: “You are not going to work in insurance”, like a “supreme insult to the artistic side of the house.”
A precious artistic heritage for Pierre Arditi
“My father taught me to look, to have a perspective on the world, on what I wanted”remembers the 79-year-old actor fondly. This early artistic education, reinforced by numerous visits to the theater with his father and the encouragement of his sister Catherine, a student of Tania Balachova, forged his vocation: “So I got lost a lot, that is to say found in fact”he concludes philosophically.
An expected return to the stage after difficult times for Pierre Adriti
Recovered from his two illnesses which occurred at the end of 2023 during the performances of “Lapland” at the Édouard-VII theater, Pierre Arditi is doing better and returns with “Le Price“, a play in which he plays Otto Hahn, Nobel Prize winner in chemistry, opposite Ludmila Mikaël in the role of Lise Meitner. The synopsis is as follows: “On December 10, 1946, at the Grand Hotel in Stockholm, Otto Hahn waited to receive the Nobel Prize in Chemistry. Shortly before the hour, he is joined in his suite by Lise Meitner, his former collaborator with whom he worked for more than thirty years. But Lise does not come to congratulate him. She’s coming to settle her scores.”
