Anne-Elisabeth Lemoine received Pierre Arditi on the set of C to you this Wednesday, November 6, for the release tomorrow of his book Born to playwritten by Nathalie Simon, also a guest on the show. The latter was then led to talk about the actor’s passion for the theater, which is the subject of this work. “He takes on each role as if it were his first.“, she explained in particular, before being interrupted by Arthur and Vasco’s mother.
“He (Pierre Arditi, editor’s note) still concedes that he must stop being an ‘idiot’, I use your words! After the little scares that there were during the last performances of ‘Lapin’…“, underlined Anne-Elisabeth Lemoine. To which the main person immediately responded: “It’s over. I’m here, everything is fine. There you go… There is no problem. Stop asking me how I’m doing. I’m fed up now!“A slight annoyance therefore, on the part of the father of Frédéric, born from his first marriage with the actress Florence Giorgetti.
Pierre Arditi and his reckless love for the theater
In order to recontextualize this sequence, let us recall that on September 27, 2023, Pierre Arditi suffered from illness during a performance at the Edouard-VII theater in Paris of the play Laplandwhich he played alongside Muriel Robin. A few weeks later, on December 8, he suffered a new illness, less serious but still worrying. He had been forced to take a break.
But since then he has been much better. Soon on tour in France and Belgium, Pierre Arditi has planned rehearsals for a new play, The pricein which he will play from January 2025. Because for him, despite these little scares, there is no question of stopping. “I will have all the time to retire. Being an actor is a life choice and a reward. We don’t want it to end.”, he confided to Ouest-France last October, before reaffirming his well-known love for the stage: “My breathing is theater. On stage, the audience’s reward or sentence is immediate. In cinema, the director is the captain of the boat. Once we’ve shot the film, we wave the handkerchief and watch the ship sail away without us.”
