After recently shining in the series Rebecca on TF1, Gregory Montel is this time back to the cinema for not one but two films. Indeed, the actor is playing Pink Aurélie Saada since last week and Dear Lea by Jérôme Bonnell since Wednesday. Two feature films shot in Paris but yet, Grégory Montel is a man from the South, born to Digne-les-Bains, in the Alpes-de-Haute-Provence. A small town that is always in his heart and in which he invests as much as he can.
Moreover, a few years ago, Grégory Montel bought out the disused cinema in the city center teaches us Release who dedicated a portrait to him in his edition of December 15, 2021. Since then, he has been trying to make it an attractive and social place “ambitious programming“. And all on a voluntary basis! Thus,”he spends a good part of his free time on this project“, we read. Which is not to please everyone.”I am on the verge of burnout, I have to take a vacation. My wife can stand me more“, he blurted out to our colleagues, speaking of the actress Marine Danaux who shares her life and with whom he had two children.
The premises of his childhood commune do not necessarily view his involvement in Digne-les-Bains and the changes he brings with him very positively either. And for good reason, in their eyes, Grégory Montel has become a true Parisian. “Even though he’s back with the best of intentions, for those who stayed, it’s too late. He is gone, it cannot be forgotten“, remember Release.
It is true that Grégory Montel moved to the capital twenty years ago to pursue his dreams. And if he already has a good career behind him, it is only in recent years, thanks to the series Ten percent, that he has made a place for himself in the hearts of the French, at the time of passing the milestone of 40 years. A breakthrough came late for the actor and it is not bad according to him. “At 25, I hated myself physically. I’m much better about myself at 45. I am aging, I have my beard, my nose is less prominent: if I am more desirable, it is not only success“, he believes. And of success, Grégory Montel has:”proposals are piling up, even from abroad. He has just shot an English series in Prague and is testing for Netflix.“