“At that moment, I said to myself, ‘Okay, I’m in deep shit!‘” When we hear Pierre Arditi talk about his meeting with his future wife Evelyne Bouix, we quickly understand that after 36 years of relationship, it’s still mad love! Guest Wednesday evening of the show En Aparté on Canal +, the actor wanted to tell the journalist Nathalie Lévy the love at first sight he felt in front of the one who was to then become his partner in the cinema.
In 1986, the two actors were recruited to shoot together in a film by director Edouard Molinaro, who wanted them to meet before filming. They then meet in Neuilly, in the director’s mansion. The actor still remembers the moment when his wife appeared to him: “You had to climb stairs and at the top you could see the living room. As I climbed, I saw a face appear and especially eyes. It was his“.
While he understands that he is falling in love without even knowing her, he realizes that this story will be important. “I said to myself: ‘Okay, I’m in deep shit’, as we say vulgarly. I was in deep shit, but wonderful shit that hasn’t left me for 36 years!“. The two actors actually chained three films together and ended up getting married … in 2010, after 24 years of relationship!
But before that, the warm-voiced actor tells the show about their first kiss: “I was still very shy but we felt that there was something between us like that. We brushed up against each other like cats… One day, she got tired of me not declaring myself, she grabbed me by the collar of my jacket and shoved me like thugs do! […] She was smaller than me but much more determined… and she did well by the way!“
Thirty-six years after their meeting, Pierre Arditi is still madly in love with his wife, whom he describes as “her best friend“and he finds”much prettier today. I’m a little less well but it’s okay, I manage. I prefer myself now“. Both did not have children together, a choice they had explained by a difference in timing.
However, Pierre Arditi raised like his daughter Salomé Lelouch, the daughter that the actress had had with director Claude Lelouch and who was only three years old when they met. She followed the path of her illustrious parents by becoming an actress, then a director and theater director.