Fabrice Luchini shares his definition of the acting profession

Fabrice Luchini looks back on his beginnings as a hairdresser before embarking on a career as an actor. He declares in fact to have started his professional career inasmuch as hairdresser, then he was allegedly spotted in a nightclub. It’s an atypical journey that has shaped his vision of the profession. On the occasion of the 2024 Cannes Film Festival, he presents the film “Marcello Mio” directed by Christophe Honoré in which he plays himself alongside Chiara Mastroianni and Catherine Deneuve.

About his job, Fabrice Luchini highlights the differences between being an actor and a comedian, emphasizing the importance of stepping aside to make room for the character: “An actor, he disappears to witness the character for whom he is responsible. An actor bears witness to himself, he is full of himself.“With lucidity and sensitivity, Fabrice Luchini looks back on certain moments of his journey:”I prostituted myself by doing TV shows where I was condemned to hysteria because I loved it. […] It’s not the best image that (I have) of (myself)“, he confides.

During this intimate interview, Fabrice Luchini also talks about what he calls his “sad passions” : “I am a being of resentment. It means that I have sad passions, of fear, of hatred, of pettiness. I’m not grandiose, me”. Despite these “sad passions“, Fabrice Luchini has always found in his art an inexhaustible source of joy and accomplishment: “Objectively, I should have been unemployed for 10 years, I am 72 years old, I am at the end of my career, and as there is a neurosis of intoxication with the theater, with this filming… I am in a state of intoxication to not see reality” indicates Fabrice Luchini.