Known for his well-crafted thrillers, Olivier Marchal will be this Wednesday, May 3, 2023, on the poster of a comedy called “For honor”. In this feature film about rugby directed by Philippe Guillard, the former police officer gives the reply to Mathieu Madénian and Solène Hebert. On this occasion, Olivier Marchal connects television sets and interviews and was recently received on the airwaves of Europe 1 to answer questions from Laurie Cholewa.
Against all expectations, Olivier Marchal expressed his concerns about his children: “When I see this world… I have four children. I am totally desperate, distraught. I don’t have the words to explain to them how to overcome tomorrow. I don’t have the words. I can’t do it” he asserted.
The actor and director is indeed the father of Léa, who is passionate about horses and who does not appear on the front of the stage, Zoé, 24, who has already appeared in numerous films and television films such as “Disappeared”, “Overdose” or even “Time is a murderer”, Ninon, 18 who follows in the footsteps of his parents and his sister in the seventh art… and Basile, 14 who is still in school. All were born of his marriage to Catherine Marchal who is also an actress and director.
“There are a lot of opportunists and bitch tongues”
And after having evoked his traditional family, Olivier Marchal has just swung on his other family, that of the cinema. In the columns of the Team, the 64-year-old actor thus distances himself from this professional family. Philippe Guillard, also questioned, first replies that the family of cinema is not theirs: “No, cinema is our job. But we have managed to create our own family, with our own history, and that suits us very well. If we don’t make films with those who don’t like us, it doesn’t matter”.
And Olivier Marchal to confirm: “In the cinema, there are a lot of opportunists and bitch tongues who arrive like that. Whereas in rugby, if you are not good, the ball will not be passed to you. In the cops, if you’re an opportunist, you’ll have a career, but you’ll do it all alone in your office. We’re the dunces of the class, but the dunces we need. Because we organize end-of-year shows. year and it works… So they keep us”. We note that Olivier Marchal could soon make a film on the life of “Johnny Hallyday” since he had expressed the desire for it in May 2020.
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