Camille Cottin “distraught”, she evokes with emotion the death of her father

Camille Cottin was alongside Pedro Almodóvar and Julianne Moore on the set of C to youthis Tuesday, December 17. The French actress, very touched by the subject of the Spaniard’s latest film, gave a moving testimony on the death of her father.

A summit meeting took place on Anne-Élisabeth Lemoine’s set, this Tuesday, December 17. Come to present the first English-language film by the Spanish director, The Room Next Doorin theaters on January 8, 2025, Pedro Almodóvar and his actress Julianne Moore were on France 5 and had the pleasure of receiving sweet words from Camille Cottin. Coming soon to the play The meeting at the Théâtre des Bouffes du Nord, the actress was shocked by the 75-year-old filmmaker’s new drama and told him in impressive Spanish.

“In the film, you talk about death with the character of Julianne [Moore] who is a very joyful character, and then there is that of John Turturro who is in despair at the way the world is going, but the character of Julianne says “The little time we have left, we must live it in joy”she was moved, for whom this fiction stirred up a very painful personal experience. “It upset me”she added, before mentioning the death of her father, in January 2022, from cancer.

Camille Cottin, the impossible mourning of her father

With a smile on her lips, Camille Cottin then returned to the last moments of her family with her father. “I accompanied our father, we were several brothers and sisters in the apartment until the end. So what does it mean to choose the place where we are going to take the person so that they can go away, what do we exchange in those moments, what does what we do with this precious time…” she recalled with a tremor in her voice. And to conclude by praising this film “deep and poetic”.

In October 2022, Camille Cottin had already spoken with great emotion about the disappearance of her father with journalists from Papotin, on France 2. While she had been asked to read a text entitled Adult neverwhere it was a question of the loss of parents, the forty-year-old had let a few tears flow. “Rudy’s poem created an emotion in me. (…) I lost my dad in January, nine months ago. He was sick”she revealed with a heavy heart.

“I think that a dad must be kept for life, you can’t lose your dad. It’s impossible”had then sympathized with Rudy, the author of the text who had also lost his father years before. “I completely agree, that’s what I told myself, it’s unacceptable”replied the actress Ten percent.