“perversity”, “fear”… when Myriam Boyer recounted the “nightmare” experienced alongside her

Sunday 1^is December, Niels Arestrup died at age 75. The actor passed away following a long illness. A few years ago, Myriam Boyer, who played with him in the play Who's afraid of Virginia Woolf?recounted the “nightmare” experienced alongside him.

The world of 7^e art mourns one of its own. Sunday 1^is December, actor Niels Arestrup took his last breath. The actor, crowned with three Caesars, died at the age of 75 in his house located in Ville-d'Avray in Hauts-de-Seine, following a long illness. The announcement of his disappearance was made by Isabelle Le Nouvel, his partner. The death of the artist is the opportunity, for Gala.frto dive back into certain parts of his existence. And, in particular, in the old confidences made by Myriam Boyer, her scene partner in the play Who's afraid of Virginia Woolf?in the show Boomerang from France Inter in September 2021. The 76-year-old actress, whom movie buffs particularly associate with films The Beach Hotel, Black Series et The sound of ice cubes did not mince his words.

Clovis Cornillac's mother remembered her disagreement with the man who pushed her out: “It's a nightmare. You feel like you're going to wake up because it wasn't possible.” “I believe that we will no longer be able to do what happened and that is very good news”added the actress, satisfied to see some of her colleagues denouncing similar behavior in the media space. Near 7 Days TValso in the fall of 2021, she said she had “discovered, with Niels Arestrup, what perversity was”. “It is impossible to defend yourself from it. The fear of being pushed aside leaves you in terrible solitudeshe detailed, determined not to sugarcoat anything. After outbursts of violence, he ensured that I was sent back to the 54^e representation. It was a real nightmare.”

Myriam Boyer is not the only one to have bitter memories of Niels Arestrup

After the actor's death, France Info recalled that in 1996, Myriam Boyer had accused Niels Arestrup of having almost strangled her during a performance of Who's afraid of Virginia Woolf?. In 2007, with Liberation the main person concerned had admitted having “punctured Miou-Miou's eardrum with a slap during filming” et “broken Maria Schneider’s tailbone” the same day. Isabelle Adjani, who worked alongside him forty years ago, did not have good memories of their collaboration either. As recalled The Parisian she left the play in 1983 Mademoiselle Julie by August Strindberg in which she played with the actor, who had slapped her. “Personally, I unfortunately have nothing positive to say about the manshe commented to the regional daily. My memory of the theater partner remains a striking trauma.”

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