The man behind the screen. For several years, François Civil has been grabbing everything in his path. And for good reason, the actor who blows this Monday January 29 his 34th candle has never ceased to renew itself in the cinema: a young adult a little lost inFiveby Igor Gotesman, a man with extraordinary hearing in The song of the wolfby Antonin Baudry, awkward lover InTwo meby Cédric Klapisch, valiant hero in the sagaThe three Musketeersby Martin Bourboulon… Infallible, the successful actor is however not. Moreover, this one been hanging around since adolescence the signs of his humanity.
In an interview given toParis Matchin 2019, François Civil explained that he had a skin depigmentation on the arms and a white streak since he was 15, a physical translation of his anxiety according to him. “No doctor could tell me why. Me, I know that it’s my body that take some of my stress and which sends me signals like: ‘Oh! man, take it easy, there, you are overworked‘”, he confided to our colleagues. And to add with a touch of irony:“I reassure myself by telling myself that if it’s my body that picks up, at least it’s not my head.”
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François Civil: a complex man
François Civil pleases and it is not the offspring of Vincent Cassel who will say the opposite. “My daughters love François”, had confided the father of Deva, who is a model, and of Léonie on the set ofC to you(France 5) last December. However, the one who took his first steps in the cinema in the filmTHE Cactusby Gérard Bitton and Michel Munz is an insecure man behind the scenes. “I grew up very late physically, and mentally also undoubtedly. Until I was 18-19, I was 1.60 m tall, I didn’t have a single hair. I had my growth spurt very late. I was very self-conscious for a long time by the fact that I was small, that I didn’t have any hairand not having this masculinity that I saw in other people my age”, he admitted in 2019 in the podcastFellowofGQ. Result, the actor flees his image, as he had detailed withThe Teamin January 2021: “I hate looking at myself on the screen. In the same way that hearing your voice on voicemail can be annoying, there’s something awkward about looking at me. […] Looking at me doesn’t flatter me. Very often I find that I have a big noseI fixate on my eyebrows, my mouth… I think I’m ugly, In fact ! (laughs)”
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