Hate, Cloclo, French, Carbon… Benoît Magimel has an impressive filmography! He adds a new feature film, In his lifetime, in which he plays a man condemned too young by illness. The actor makes behind-the-scenes revelations of the making of the film; for his role, Benoît Magimel went through several diets and had his teeth removed …
It is with the The Team Magazine that Benoît Magimel spoke, an interview published in the issue of November 27, 2021. The 47-year-old actor recounted the shooting of the film In his lifetime, which he shares with Catherine Deneuve and for which he lost 20 kilos. “Believe me, it is more difficult to lose at 45 than at 30! Faced with such a challenge, you almost become a top athlete, explains the actor. I had to chain three successive modes because the shooting was stopped twice, which was perilous. These three regimes have completely punctuated my life: meals, recovery, training. I spent my time doing my shopping, preparing my meals, my snacks … I managed to lose those 25 kilos in three and a half months with the help of my family because it had become an obsession: all my conversations were turning. around that.“
If I removed a few pivot teeth, could that be a solution?
Unfortunately, Benoît Magimel took back the pounds lost during the 2020 end-of-year celebrations. “And there, I am told that the film resumes in March! Here I am again at 95 kilos. Big moral fatigue, remembered the interpreter of the character of Benjamin, hero of In his lifetime. I lose about twenty kilos. At the end of May, I am told that the film resumes in August and there, it is extremely complicated. I lose about twenty kilos but I have to be in sync with the image with what was shot. I try to scratch all I can. I thought if I took out a few pivot teeth, could that be a solution? Five teeth less later, it was good. Cryotherapy, on the other hand, I advise against it, I almost attacked my doctor because it is so painful.“