INTERVIEW – On displayA fanfareby Emmanuel Courcol, she returns to the theater after six years of absence with The Price, by Cyril Gely, Lucky bracelets on her arms, the actress talks about the profession and her passions.
In this play directed by Tristan Petitgirard at the Théâtre Hébertot, the discreet honorary member of the Comédie-Française plays Lise Meitner, a renowned Austrian physicist. In December 1946, at the Grand Hotel in Stockholm, she found her former collaborator, Otto Hahn (Pierre Arditi), a famous chemist who had come to receive the Nobel.
LE FIGARO. – You haven’t been to the theater since 2018, you missed it ?
Ludmila MIKAEL. – The project of Prix dates back four years. It took a little long to assemble. It was my holy grail. I don’t know if I missed the theater, but I realize that it’s my life as soon as I go back to it.
It was Pierre Arditi who proposed this project to you.
We have dreamed of playing together for a long time. One day he called me. « Ludmila, it’s Arditi on the phone. That’s it, I found a text for us. » We had known each other for thirty-seven years, since I left the Comédie-Française. I thank him for thinking of me. It is…
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