There are many actors who give of their person for a role. For the needs of In his lifetime, the feature film by Emmanuelle Bercot which leaves on November 24 at the cinema, Benoît Magimel must have lost several kilos. Alongside Cécile de France and Catherine Deneuve, Benoît Magimel plays Benjamin, a young man who is suffering from an incurable disease. The actor therefore had to lose a lot of weight to appear credible in this role. “I had to go on a draconian diet”, he told Star TV. “I started to run, to drink a lot of water. I had to have a rigorous discipline of life. I lost twenty kilos in four months!“, revealed the dad of Hannah and Djinina (21 and 10 years old).
The one who was brought up in Paris, wanted to push the experience even further. “I assisted consultations with an oncologist but I quickly stopped. I felt like a voyeur. Above all, I had to draw my inspiration from myself, that I totally identify with the character “, revealed the one who lived a long love affair with Juliette Binoche, mother of his eldest daughter.
Moved by the tragic fate of his character, Benoît Magimel confessed that his reflection frightened him and that filming was not always a part of pleasure. “JI am very sensitive, I cried a lot during the takes. I couldn’t find any light in this story. It took me these interruptions to the shoot to manage to take a step back “, he told our colleagues.
At the age of 47, the man who lives in the wealthy 16th arrondissement of Paris to get closer to his daughter Hannah, remembered the big names in cinema with which he grew up and which made him dream as a kid. “I grew up with figures from cinema, men of integrity, rights, Gabin, Belmondo, Ventura … I wanted to be the best of fathers, the best of husbands. Finally, was it not too heavy? Real life, that’s the hard part “, said the one who shares his life with screenwriter Margot Pelletier at World.