A monument. In the theater as in the cinema, Michel Bouquet has left a deep mark, throughout his 75-year career. Died at 96 on Wednesday April 13, the actor marked the big screen under the direction of great directors (Claude Chabrol, François Truffaut …), but never hid his predilection for the theater.
Fabrice Luchini: “I spent great moments with him”
“He was the most attractive and endearing man. He was too rich a character that we can’t talk about because it’s huge”. After the announcement of the death of Michel Bouquet, Fabrice Luchini confided in franceinfo. He presented an honorary Molière to Michel Bouquet in 2015.
“Michel was a mystic. I spent immense moments with him, I was his coach. I saw him have the most beautiful hole in the history of the theater, I was his son in a film. “
Fabrice Luchiniat franceinfo
It is for Fabrice Luchini the most beautiful meeting of his life. How did it go? “It was during a filming of Pierre Zucca, I play his son, it is my first big role. He taught me to be attentive to the other. It is him and by him that I understood. “
Charles Berling: “It was walking poetry”
“We are losing a father, a father of drama. He is a man who has devoted his entire life to drama. He existed on film or theater sets by sacrificing a lot of his life”reacted Charles Berling on franceinfo.
“He played the greatest authors, he crossed paths with the greatest directors.”
Charles Berlingat franceinfo
His death “is terrible, although you could say he lived well and many lives. He was incapable of many things in life but he could pretend anything on the sets. I never saw anyone like that. It was walking poetry.”
Pierre Arditi: “An absolute, eternal master”
“He was not a sacred monster but a masterdeclared on franceinfo Pierre Arditi. There is something about him that is unattainable. He is perhaps the only actor to have achieved the perfection behind which we all run. He is an eternal master”he added. “There is a science to dramatic art and he is an absolute master.”
“I have never seen an actor with such a powerful capacity for embodiment as his. It was a game of such purity, it was totally pure. You always wondered how he was able to play in this way. -the.”
Pierre Arditiat franceinfo
Michael Bouquet “is someone we can refer to all our lives. People of my generation, but also younger people.” The most important thing for him “it was the theatre.”