Pierre Arditi: "I put all my life in my actor suitcase"<

Interview. At 76, Pierre Arditi has a string of projects. Every evening, he plays with his wife Evelyne Bouix Fallait pas le dire!, by Salomé Lelouch, at the Théâtre de la Renaissance in Paris. Other pieces are planned for 2022 and 2023. In the cinema, after Le Trésor du Petit Nicolas, by Julien Rappeneau, in October, he will be in Yvan Attal's new film, Les Choses Humaines, in December, then in La Scala, by Bruno Chiche, and in Adieu Paris!, by Edouard Baer.

I would not have arrived here if...

If Les Trois Baudets had not existed. This Parisian room on Boulevard de Clichy was created at the end of the 1940s by Jacques Canetti, a cousin of my father. Sometimes my father, who was a painter, did sets for Trois Baudets shows, like François Billetdoux's Hifi. And we children − my sister Catherine and I − we were invited to discover the new magazines. This is how I saw Jacques Brel begin, with his strange head and big teeth, Guy Béart, Catherine Sauvage, Félix Leclerc, Yves Robert, Raymond Devos or even Serge Gainsbourg, dressed like a prince, in a gray suit clear, with suede pumps, totally atypical.

All of this blew my mind. Les Trois Baudets was my first show shock. I was impressed by the small stage: ah, when you go up on this stage and stare at the audience, you are watched!, I said to myself. What fascinated me was being watched, recognized by others. Already…

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Where did this thirst for recognition come from?

A lack of self-confidence. I was a beloved, happy child. Yet, I was missing something. I was extroverted, but it was to overcome a pathological shyness. I didn't like it.

Fascinated by the music hall, you could have become a singer or a musician...

My father wanted us to be artists. This could have given painters or musicians, indeed. For a moment, my parents actually thought they had given birth to a new Mozart. Their friend [the pianist] Jean Casasur came to the house to listen to me play the Little Night Music. He thought it was not bad, but first I had to learn music theory. A lady came to tell me. After ten days, I unfortunately closed the piano. Too bad… Above all, I quickly discovered the theater.

How?

My father took us to the Comédie-Française, and Robert Hirsch became our idol. My sister and I knew his lines by heart. And then, Devos, Carmet, Ricet Barrier and many other friends of my father came to dinner at the house. On those nights, my parents didn't send us to bed. They thought it was important that we participate in this life, in these conversations that enrich us. I also reproduced this with my son, Plouffy, who is 52 years old today. He became a painter, like his grandfather.

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