The world of the seventh art is in mourning. Monday, January 18, 2021, the great Jean-Pierre Bacri passed away from cancer "in the early afternoon" as her agent Anne Alvares-Correa informed BFMTV. Died at 69 after a long battle with illness, Jean-Pierre Bacri leaves behind him who was the woman of his life, with whom he lived in personal and professional osmosis, despite their separation in 2012: Agnès Jaoui. "Agnes is the great story of my life and I think it's mutual. We love each other. She's my soul mate. We're no longer together", explained the actor to Gala in 2018.
If Agnès Jaoui for her part had two children adopted in Brazil in 2008, her lifelong sidekick has never tasted fatherhood. "Nature did not want", he explained in Psychologies Magazine in 2010. "If it had existed, it would have been good, but it was not … I have a little stoic side that makes me go through mourning at supersonic speed (…) The rain doesn't bother me. It doesn't bother me. does not occur to me to complain ". Blossoming, Jean-Pierre Bacri said to himself "free to build up your own happiness".
"I'm not scared of anything"
In this same interview, the favorite grouch of the French ensures that death does not frighten him. "No. I don't care. We always think of death like children, we imagine that we are no longer there. But when we are dead, we do not know it, we are the only one who does not know it. You do not witness your death. What is terrible is before. Sickness, sickness beast suffering. To be a hunted little beast ", he explains. Words that take on a whole new meaning today, a few hours after his death: "That scares me that the disease will turn me into a little hunted animal. But other than that, I'm not afraid of anything. I tell you to your face: you're welcome ". Until the end, the actor, screenwriter and playwright nevertheless demonstrated "of great courage because the end was not easy", as his doctor, Dr. Pierre Squara, told BFMTV: "He demanded to be treated like everyone else".
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