This whole story seems to be a terrible nightmare from which France will eventually wake up. But the horror is very real. Gaspard Ulliel died on January 19, 2022 at the Grenoble University Hospital, the day after a skiing accident that took place in the La Rosière area, in Savoie. The entire world of the seventh art was covered with a dark veil, at the announcement of his disappearance, and Isabelle Huppert struggled to find the right words, on the set of the program C à Vous, while she evoked the incredible journey of her young colleague.
He was a pretty blameless human being.
“It seems completely unreal to me, as it seems to everyone who has met him and everyone who has not met him, she explained on France 5. He was an exceptional actor and he was a pretty blameless human being, Gaspard Ulliel. He had human qualities which would be those of a man more advanced in his life, to be so young. I knew him, he was 23 years old, Gaspard. He played my son in A dam against the Pacific. A delicacy, an intelligence, a simplicity… I don’t have enough words to really express the beauty of the human being that he was. His disappearance is very, very upsetting..”
Gaspard Ulliel and Isabelle Huppert had actually met when they were filming for Rithy Panh in 2008. They had had the pleasure of meeting again, ten years later, playing in the film Eva by Benoit Jacquot. Died at the age of 37, the actor and father of Orso – 5 years – leaves an incredible void, on film sets and everywhere else. His funeral will take place on Thursday January 27 at 11 a.m. in the Saint-Eustache church in the first arrondissement of Paris, as confirmed by his agent Laurent Grégoire to AFP last Saturday. This will be an opportunity for everyone to tell him “goodbye“one last time…