This Wednesday, March 16, 2022, viewers of France 2 will be able to find Pierre Arditi in the fiction “What Pauline does not tell you”. On screen, the actor embodies a treacherous character who wants to destroy his stepdaughter by any means possible. In the columns of Tele-Leisure, the star spoke at length about her role. “He was interesting to play for his duplicity. Bernard Borel appears, at first glance, as a sympathetic, benevolent, liberal bourgeois, then, gradually, he turns out to be a particularly odious man”he analyzed to our colleagues. “It was this work that interested me. This way of containing his monstrous nature and only delivering it in small touches. There is in particular this scene where he finds himself face to face with Pauline (Ophelia Kolb, editor’s note), whom he completely demolishes with very harsh words. I found this sequence extraordinary to play […]”.
In this register, Pierre Arditi shines brilliantly. Over the years, he has become one of the essential figures of the 7ᵉ art. In addition to his career, the artist sometimes likes to talk about his private life. In the past, the husband of Evelyne Bouix was addicted to games. In the turmoil, the main interested party has often lied to his relatives to live his passion out of sight. Unfortunately, the actor also lost a lot of money.
At the start of his career, Pierre Arditi teamed up with a group keen on gambling circles in Paris. After several successful games, he wanted to start over but “luck quickly turned”.“I started to invent bogus excuses to stop going to work and go back to play hoping to make up for myself. I invented things to borrow, I imitated signatures”confessed the artist for Gala.
But in the long run, Pierre Arditi ended up worrying his whole family. “One evening, I lost the vacation money. My wife and my son were waiting for me to leave that morning. When I left the circle, I had fifty balls left […] Between 5 am and 7 am, I made phone calls to collect this money. I lied one last time”he added. “Disfigured, defeated, crumbling. I said to myself my friend, there are two schools: ‘you shoot yourself, or you stop everything and you repay'”. Ten years later, Pierre Arditi will succeed in paying off all his debts: “My narcissism saved me. I didn’t like my face in this reflection”.
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