Pierre Arditi, actor
“I knew him as a journalist, with whom I might or might not agree.
When you are in front of a human being where reason prevails over lack of intelligence, that's good.
He was a brilliant man with charm and nobility.
I called him 'Dad', he reminded me of my father, both physically and in the way he snubbed the things that bothered him.
I also think of him as a big brother in his way of disagreeing.
He couldn't be mean.
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He was an iconoclast, there was something childish about him.
He knew how to talk about the theatre.
We feared his criticism.
He knocked off or was sometimes friendly so as not to struggle.
No one will be able to write on the theater like him.
It is no coincidence that he bought the Théâtre de Poche Montparnasse, which he brought back to life.
We had the feeling of meeting an actor who knew how to talk about our profession.
As Guitry could say, he had a mind where grace competed with intelligence...
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