The prodigy of French cinema, Pierre Niney was the portrait of this week in the Sunday program of TF1 hosted by Harry Roselmack.
“Of course I am less and less young, therefore less and less prodigy”
begins the actor who obtained his first César at 25 for the biopic
Yves Saint-Laurent
directed by Jalil Lespert.
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A control freak to lead his career so well?
"It's a bit caricatural, but unfortunately I can't deny that"
replies a little embarrassed the guest of Audrey Crespo-Mara.
He continues:
"When I started this job, it seemed so crucial and so important to me and marked forever in the film what we do, that I had a sacredness of this thing, such that it happened to go to my room and redo the scene for me and so late that it no longer made any sense, we are in the irrational.
And it was a bit sickly, and it's good that I let go.
It's been two or three years since I let go and that's good too
.
A serenity found
A serenity found thanks to a new way of life, in the countryside with his partner and his two daughters.
"To be in a living space closer to nature and to choose when you want to be in the crowd or when you want to be quiet at home"
is the formula for tranquility according to the actor starring in Nicolas Bedos' next film
Mascarade
at the beginning of November.
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Youngest resident in the history of La Comédie Française, a César, father of a family... The interview conducted in "Sept à Huit" finally questions: is Pierre Niney a man in a hurry?
A moment of hesitation, and for once the actor remains silent before answering:
“I am no longer.
There was a vibrant impatience to know lots of things, she was a good and bad adviser, more good than bad so if I had to do it again, I would do it all the same”
.
The rest of the portrait is devoted to the origins of the actor who says he has
"an Egyptian profile"
by his father which earned him this recognizable face among the host of actors of the same generation.
It is the discovery of the theater and especially of the texts of Molière which will take him out of the
"vestiges of his childhood shyness"
.
Supported by his parents in his passion, his schooling is not the most brilliant,
“I was never the first in class, I was always the guy just below the average”
.
Its success today is however undeniable.