At the request of one of his fans who repeatedly asked him for a kiss, the actor complied. Before putting on a show during the photocall. Clowning, for Benoît Poelvoorde, is second nature. The fans and photographers had a blast. Particularly when he posed with Gad Elmaleh who came to inaugurate the slab in his name on the cobblestones of Liège.
While the photocall announcer didn’t say a word while Claude François’ music sounded, Benoît Poelvoorde grabbed the microphone. “We have just shot a film together and we will have a premiere here in Liège,” Gad Elmaleh said as a joke, before Benoît Poelvoorde discreetly told him before leaving the red carpet: “Don’t worry, they will check. “
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“I want to quit cinema because I’m getting too old”
In The art of being happypresented this Saturday evening in national preview, in the presence of Belgian director Stefan Liberski – who comes from Snuls –, the actor plays a painter who dreams of glory with also François Damiens, Laurence Bibot and Camille Cottin in the cast. An artist who spends his life ruminating on ready-made ideas.
In an interview given to our colleagues at The Last Hour/SportsBenoît Poelvoorde returned to the reasons why he wanted to quit cinema.
“I want to stop acting because I’m getting too old,” he explained. “Then it seems logical to me, we have to hand over the hand. Make way for the youth.”
gullThere has still been a climate for several years when you are filming… (…) You have to measure your words, measure your gestures, etc. I, for example, am a fairly tactile person. So I’m careful not to touch people.
“But there has still been a climate for several years when you are filming. It’s the atmosphere on the sets,” continued the Belgian actor. “You have to measure your words, measure your gestures, etc. Me, for example, I am a fairly tactile person. So I am careful not to touch people. Not to find myself two in the same room or leave the door open. It comes from the United States, not from here, we have a European culture, we are almost even Mediterranean. We feel a societal thing but I think it’s everywhere. comes from everywhere and so, what do we do? We’re on guard all the time. I know a guy who doesn’t want to take the elevator with a woman anymore. That means that. your brain is still conditioned to act like this but we don’t know how to do anything about it, unlike my character who would take every fight head on. This guy is a cliché.
