Recently returned from a trip made very far from France – he went to Antigua, in the Caribbean, to recharge his batteries after his father’s funeral – Paul Belmondo has his batteries fully charged to return to the stage. In terms of batteries, Luana Belmondo’s husband knows a lot about them since he was a racing driver in the past, which he considers his first life. Comedy is the second, although for him, “everything is intertwined“.”When I was little, I was brought up in the world of culture, cinema, theater of course by my father, by my sculptor grandfather. Then I came to sport and then to the theater. I’m lucky to be able to mix the two since I’m still a sports consultant for TV channels, he confides to Provence. It’s really very lucky to be able to have different experiences in different environments. I am aware of it and really appreciate it.“
When Paul Belmondo also took up acting, he knew that his very famous name could be synonymous with pressure. This pressure, the dad of Alessandro (who will soon be dad for the first time), Victor (also an actor) and Giacomo refused it. For a very simple reason, he knew he could never do better than his illustrious daddy. “We are what we are in life and what is very important is to give the maximum of yourself and to do things very seriously, to work at it. It is not the name Belmondo that imposes it on me, it is the fruit of the education that I received through my father and my grandfather. I was brought up telling me that I was no different from others. Others look at me differently, but I personally don’t feel any different“, explains Paul Belmondo.
And the pride of being the son of Jean-Paul Belmondo will be forever eternal … “When I go on stage, my goal is to try to be the best I can be for the audience. Never to see me compared to what my father represented. Because, in my eyes, my father was such an exceptional actor that no one can match him. From that side, I immediately evacuated the problem“, he concludes on the subject.
Paul Belmondo is not in his first steps as an actor with the play Boeing Boeing, which he shares in particular with the former Miss France Valérie Bègue. He played in Larger than life with Delphine Depardieu and Jean Martinez, at the theater Comédie Bastille. He also gave the answer to Mathilde Seigner in the TV movie Chief Health Officer which was broadcast on France 2 in 2012.