Pierre Arditi annoyed on France 5 by Anne-Elisabeth Lemoine

One of the reasons that makes us love Pierre Arditi it's this very classy and very free way that he has of saying what he thinks. The privilege of age some will say. The intelligence of the repartee will say others. So this Wednesday in the second part of Anne-Elisabeth Lemoine's talk show, “C à vous”. The actor, who will celebrate his eightieth birthday on December 1, came to defend Born to Play – Its Truths a new biography devoted to him by our colleague Nathalie Simon.

Everything was in the best of all possible worlds on the set of the show, until the mention of the health alerts which forced it in recent weeks to interrupt or cancel certain performances. “It’s over, I’m here, everything is fine. Stop asking me how I'm doing, I'm tired of it now. The people are delicious. They're absolutely adorable… 'Are you feeling better?' Yes! How are you! How are you!”retorted half-annoyed, half-amused the great French actor, before switching to a cheerful: “This good little Babethoune”.

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Soon in a new fiction

The book, which has as its common thread the immense career of the person concerned and his relationship with death, also highlights his extraordinary vitality, his range of acting, his most notable roles, his taste for seduction and major events. of his existence, like his happiness shared with Évelyne Bouix, his lifelong companion. In the work, he himself confesses: he loves nothing more than to “stuff your face with life”. The French scene thanks him for it.

Television too, towards which, after the wine-police collection of the 2000s, The blood of the vinehe comes back from time to time. We saw him this year in Laetitia Masson's miniseries Illegal citizens . We will soon find it in the fiction of Chloé Micout, Cursed. Waiting for, Born to Play – Its Truths is available in bookstores from this Thursday, November 7, from Robert Laffont editions.