He’s back in the limelight in a strong, overwhelming role. In In his lifetime, Emmanuelle Bercot’s new film, Benoît Magimel plays a failed actor, theater teacher, suffering from incurable pancreatic cancer. In 34 years of career, 57 films, we had never seen, undoubtedly, so vibrant. Alongside Catherine Deneuve, the actor will be the pride of all the women in his life – he had already been awarded a César for best actor in a supporting role by collaborating with the director, in La Tête haute, in 2015.
Married since 2018 to screenwriter Margot Pelletier, Benoît Magimel lived two highly publicized romances with Juliette Binoche, first, with actress Nikita Lespinasse then. With the first, he had a daughter, Hannah, now 21, and then followed Djinina, 10, with the second. So many of them will go to the cinema to admire the actor, who plays Benjamin, from November 24, 2021. And to think that he initially thought he was only the man of a companion …
“Because my parents were divorced, I wanted to stay with the same woman all my life, he actually admits in the columns of the magazine Madame Figaro. That was not the case. We all deal with our fractures, but we must be careful not to load the boat with our children. They do not necessarily have the expectations that we project on them: they come from our own shortcomings.” The film In his lifetime also marks the return to the cinema of Catherine Deneuve, who has just come out of an intense period of mourning, isolation and health concerns – she was the victim of a TIA in November 2019. So much for good reason to join the red seats, the closest, as soon as the time comes …
Find the full interview with Benoît Magimel in the magazine “Madame Figaro” of November 5, 2021.