It was January 19, 2022. Already more than a month since Gaspard Ulliel left us and, of course, no one has forgotten him. His family, his friends, as well as his fellow actors and directors still do not manage to realize that the young actor is no longer part of this world and always evoke this tragic disappearance with great emotion. Xavier Dolan, director of “Mommy” and in the running to receive the César for best actor in a supporting role for his performance in Lost Illusions, was the guest of the Canal + program, “En aparté”, to talk about his appointment and the loss of his friend.
Indeed, the director and friend of Gaspard Ulliel spoke for the first time on an event that made a lot of talk. As surprising as it may seem, he did not go to his funeral and everyone still wonders why. “I wanted to come to the funeral, but I don’t know… It was far away, it was public, and then there were a lot of people. I was a little scared with the Covid”, he revealed with great regret. Perhaps also afraid of bursting into tears and having even more trouble accepting the fact that he would never see the one he had shared so much with again.
“I still have a lot of trouble realizing that he is gone. I don’t know if I can talk about it, I still have a lot of trouble realizing and accepting. I dream a lot about him, I dream about him once night out of three or four, I constantly dream of him”confided Xavier Dolan before saying a little more about the dreams he had: “sometimes quite cruel dreams, these dreams which are ultimately hyper realistic where we think we are really in reality and the awakening is even more brutal. We really believed in it, we thought we were in real life. I still have a lot of dreams like that”. A bad patch that should not end anytime soon unfortunately.
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