While we discover Pierre Niney with delight in the role of a young director unsure of himself in Fiasco, on Netflix, the actor keeps his feet on the ground when it comes to his own success and fame. Overmedia coverage, for the 35-year-old young man, is a real pitfall that puts a strain on mental health. “You can take the wrong paths or bad habits as a person with too much assistance on film sets,” he admits in Click on Canal+.
Being known, for someone who is raising two daughters – Lola born in 2017, and Billie, in 2019 – “is not all fun like what people might imagine. And, at the same time, we would be very cheeky to complain about it,” procrastinates the actor of Book of solutions.
“Education must be concrete”
This clarification made, he underlines “the rather inhuman, almost monstrous aspect of celebrity which can take you to bad places”. Pierre Niney honestly admits to having suffered from these abuses himself, talking about the “uncool places in (his) head” that he has “already visited”.
Because fame is not natural according to him: “I’m not sure we were wired for that. Human beings. Me, I believe that in fact the idea of being known in a village or on the scale of a city is something that has existed almost always, but with screens, social networks , the media, the TV, the fact that there are so many people who know you, I’m not sure that […] Read more
