He will never leave it. In the face of death, we are all different. Some manage to grieve quickly and others never manage to. In any case, mourning does not mean “forgetting” and some people tend not to know the difference. Regarding Gérard Dépardieu, no one really knows in which category the actor is placed. As a reminder, the one who will be on the bill of Maigret on February 23 in cinemas, lost his son Guillaume in 2008.
Fourteen years later, the actor still lives “by his side” according to his words to the Sunday newspaper. An interview during which he also took the opportunity to give his opinion on death and if he was afraid of it. “I don’t think about it. Except, sometimes when I fall asleep and think to myself that I might not wake up the next day”, he confided before indicating that he would not be against knowing the same death as Michel Galabru. The actor leaving this world during his sleep in 2016: “It’s no worse to die in your sleep, like Michel Galabru. Death doesn’t worry me, life always ends horizontally. What’s difficult is what happens before: the pain, the agony, the impotence of medicine. With all that has happened to me, the road accidents and the comas, it’s as if I had died plenty of times. Even some drunks that I took made me die! That’s why I quit.”
Our colleagues then questioning Gérard Dépardieu on his mourning. A situation experienced by his character from Maigret, who lost his own daughter in the film released in theaters on February 23. This apparently didn’t bring him closer to his character for a good reason. “I don’t know mourning: my son Guillaume is in me, as are Jean Carmet, Maurice Pialat, François Truffaut or Barbara. If absence weighs on us, it’s because of the void it leaves. I watch to fill it in telling me that Guillaume would have liked such and such a thing”. A rather philosophical way of apprehending mourning.
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