It was at the end of the 2000s that the French public became acquainted with Pierre Niney. A promising young man who will only amaze viewers over the years and who never ceases to impress with the roles, all as different from each other, that he is capable of interpreting. Yet his career might never have taken off if he hadn’t had the necessary mental toughness. Especially when at his beginnings, he collaborates with a director who will not leave him only very good memories.
“He was very very tough and too tough for someone who is 17”he first told Léna Situations during the podcast Six Seater Sofa before specifying: “For me, there was a form of emotional abuse, a blackmail also because it is a troop that he had for a long time. There was something that was not healthy”.
The humor to save yourself
A difficult period that Pierre Niney tried to overcome as best he could by “cloaking himself” in humor in the face of the man in question. “He spoke badly to me and suddenly I said ‘And then I make you a coffee and I clean the room a little?'”he took as an example to try to demonstrate that the moments with this director were more and more difficult to overcome.
His humor at the time was none other than a “survival reflex”. “Otherwise, I burst into tearsmoreover when I was doing my valves, my throat was tight”recognizes the one who shot an “almost porn scene” with Isabelle Adjani for the film Masquerade. “It saved me from blows. Today, I see that it saved me because I lived very badly during this period. It was really awful. I know that humor allowed me to defuse at times when my psyche would not have tolerated. It was too much for my first job.”he concluded not without emotion.
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