In an interview with Figaro Magazine, Francis Huster revealed that he had given Emmanuel Macron an ultimatum. Ultimatum which could well sign the end of his career.
Francis Huster has two passions. The first: his daughters born from his relationship with Cristina Reali, Elisa, twenty-three, and Toscane Rose, eighteen, of which he is “crazy”, as he said in an interview with here is, last November. The second: Molière, aka Jean-Baptiste Poquelin. During his career, Francis Huster played many plays by the French playwright, notably at the Comédie-Française, where he was hired in 1971: The Bourgeois Gentleman, in 1972, The impromptu of Versailles, in 1973, Women’s school, in 1974, Husband’s school, in 1974, The Misanthrope, in 1975, Dom juan, in 1979. He also played The Miser, in 1973, a play in which he gave the reply to Isabelle Adjani, just that. A passion of which he has made not one but two books: Molière’s love dictionary and Poquelin vs. Molière, released last October. Corn his love for Jean-Basptiste Poquelin could mark the end of his career …
Francis Huster asked Emmanuel Macron an ultimatum: “I have complete confidence”
In an interview with Figaro Magazine, published Thursday, December 30, Francis Huster revealed that he had mentioned Molière with… Emmanuel Macron. And that he had squarely put an ultimatum to the President of the Republic. “I said to Emmanuel Macron – and I’m not kidding – that if he doesn’t bring Molière into the Panthéon, I’ll never play on a theater stage again“, confided the actor of seventy-four years.
Emmanuel Macron has four months left, before the end of his mandate, to respond to Francis Huster’s request. But the actor is not worried: “We’ll see. But I have full confidence in the President of the Republic.“