The actor Jean Pierre Castaldi gave an interview to the magazine of Nice morning Thursday January 27 on the occasion of the performance, at the Galli Theater in Sanary, of the play What a family ! (a title necessarily rich in meaning for the father of Benjamin, Paola and John Castaldi) this Sunday at 5 p.m. The actor took the opportunity to return to the disenchantment that French cinema has brought him in recent decades, and talk about his attachment to the theater.
“I haven’t been offered a role in maybe 20 years. I disappeared from the radar. I’m not in the new movement… that’s how times change“, regrets the one who feels neglected by the world of cinema for a long time. Nostalgic, the actor with a career of more than 50 years delivers some confidences, telling delicious memories of filming: “I remember a scene with Jean Rochefort in the film We’ll all go to heaven. He gives me a slap but for yves robert was that wrong? so I say to him: go ahead and knock. And there he sticks me so strong that I was on the verge of returning to him! Passionate about cinema, the ex-husband of Catherine Allégret – who had gone to the preview of the last james bond with her daughter Paola at the Grand Rex last September – ended up declaring: “It’s true that I would like to make a film again, but hey…“
But the theater is much more than a consolation prize for the colossus who had impressed his grandson Gabriel: “With this troupe it’s almost a family, I’m having fun, it’s like at the theater tonight. From the boulevard to just musicality. Rhythmic, funny without a swear word (…) I immediately said yes. Even at 77. Because when the curtain rises, I no longer have pain anywhere. On stage I feel like I’m 20 years old. The game keeps me going. The love of the spectators too”, he positive.