PORTRAIT – Hero of Dumas in the cinema, delightful comic on the platforms, the thirty-year-old leads his career at full speed, but while cultivating a certain secrecy.
They were looking for an actor with exceptional diction, capable of playing several characters at once, riding a horse and practicing fencing. In short, a virtuoso. Directors Alexandre de La Patellière and Matthieu Delaporte concluded that they needed Pierre Niney. “For us, it was him or no one.” The actor accepted immediately. And the filming was not easy. “I think he came close to physical chaos”, slips Delaporte. The price to pay so that at 35, the age at which Daniel Auteuil turned Jean de Florette or the one to whom Depardieu lent his features in Danton, the former youngest resident of the Comédie-Française plays his great popular role.
In addition to starring in the biggest film budget of the year, Niney has just co-created a comedy series with Igor Gotesman for Netflix, Fiasco . The story of a lost director who only encounters pitfalls on his set. The thirty-year-old embodies a new generation of actors who are breaking free…
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