Niels Arestrup is dead. He told us how Jacques Audiard “cured him of the fear of the camera”

Interview The actor with three Caesars died this Sunday, December 1st. In 2022 for “l'Obs”, he looked back on his career, his way of playing characters in the theater and on screen and… his fear of the camera.

We will no longer see on screen his hollow face of a wounded animal and his transparent blue eyes. French actor Niels Arestrup died this Sunday, December 1 at the age of 75, “at the end of a courageous fight against illness”announces his wife. He had won the César for best actor in a supporting role three times, for “The Beat My Heart Stopped”, “A Prophet” and “Quai d'Orsay”. On the occasion of his penultimate role, that of a serial killer in the Arte series “The Black Butterflies”, he gave us this interview in September 2022.

Since “Black Baron” and your role as President of the Republic mired in a scandal, we have not seen you starring in a series. Why come back to “Les Papillons Noirs”, is that the scenario that convinced you?

You know, ink on paper doesn't say much. There are words, justifications, semblances of explanation but the real creator, the one who has a vision, is Olivier Abbou. He came to me…