A month after the skiing accident that cost the life of Gaspard Ulliel, the pain is also immense.
Family and personalities from French cinema paid him a last tribute during a ceremony in the Saint-Eustache church.
A thousand people came to accompany him in his final rest, including Pierre Niney.
Invited this Tuesday, February 22, of the show
En aparté
on Canal +, the actor evoked, with emotion, the one who could have become a rival, without ever becoming one.
Linked by the same role, that of designer Yves Saint Laurent, only the César for best actor could decide between the two men impartially.
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Finally, Pierre Niney won in 2015 against Gaspard Ulliel, who competed in the same category for
Bertrand Bonello's
Saint Laurent .
The former resident of the Comédie-Française remembers in particular
the “elegance”
of Gaspard Ulliel towards him.
“
He was not a close friend, but the way he always behaved with me, when everything led us to probably be suspicious of each other, I always found it very classy to his share
," recalls Pierre Niney.
“We exchanged during our shoots, which was strange.
Because when I finished mine, he started his.
That there were two productions, all the same, which were engaged in a little war of cinema.
That, really boosted by the media who wanted to oppose the projects, to simplify the situation... And to sell.
We know that the clash is more seller than the nuance.
»
Pierre Niney during the show En Aparté on Canal+
If they were not close friends, the 32-year-old actor remembers the person with the
“very big heart”
that was Gaspard Ulliel.
“It makes me really weird to talk about him in the past tense,”
he continues, upset.
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Two years after Pierre Niney, Gaspard Ulliel was awarded the César for best actor in 2017 for his interpretation of
Just the end of the world
by Xavier Dolan, adapted from the play of the same name by Jean-Luc Lagarce.
In 2005, he obtained the statuette in the category of the best male hope for his role in
A long Sunday of engagement
of Jean-Pierre Jeunet.
During the 47th edition of the Césars scheduled for February 25, the memory of the actor will be honored.
"Sober, dignified, in his image,"
says Antoine de Caunes, master of ceremonies for the tenth time this year.