Pascale Arbillot: this curious eating habit that caused her harm

Pascale Arbillot hasn’t been unemployed since 2019. The 52-year-old actress has made a little less than twenty films in the space of just three years, not counting roles in two series (including Captain Marleau for France Televisions and Funny on Netflix) and the television adaptation of Elementary particles released at the start of the year. This tempo, Pascale Arbillot has been working on it since her studies at Sciences-Po in the 90s. After her diploma, the young woman went on to work as a journalist in a financial magazine, courses at the School of a small part-time documentalist job in an audit firm, as well as small roles on stage, in cinema and on television. If she struggles to carve out a place in the spotlight, Pascale Arbillot makes a decisive encounter by playing in a play of Woody Allen (Adultery) in 2006: Agnès Jaoui. The filmmaker offers him one of his first major roles in tell me about the rain two years later. The press and the public immediately fall in love with the actress considered by The Parisian in 2011 as “the new spark of French cinema“.

Pascale Arbillot never imagined one day holding the top billing when she was a child. His dream ? Preside over the IMF! “I don’t know why… I wanted to do lots of different things. I wasn’t quite sure what I wanted to do. There was also a racing driver and an opera singer. It was not very precise what”told the companion of the late Artus de Penguern on the set of Telematin last January 30. ““It’s at the same time when you dipped pickles in Nutella ?“, retorted Damien Thévenot then. “Yes, but I can still go on…”. Pascale Arbillot then lifted the veil on a curious eating habit that has long been confined to addiction. “I had to stop“, she confided bluntly. Pickles are a big deal. I was banned at one point because I had heartburn and everything eh…“. A “pickle overdose“As dangerous as an addiction to acting, a passion that caused a lot of trouble for Pascale Arbillot.

Why the cinema has created complexes for Pascale Arbillot

The profession of actress requires great strength of character, in addition to an iron will. Essential qualities not to give in to the dictates of a misogynistic and sexist industry that does not hesitate to violently (re)shape women’s bodies. Pascale Arbillot has experienced this herself. “I was told that my cheeks were too thin. That I was frowning too much… So I did a little too much botox : it can be seen in coconutI find”, she revealed in the columns of the magazine She in 2020. It will take the intervention of a friend for Pascale Arbillot to stop this frantic race to perfection: “[Elle] opened my eyes saying: ‘There you are messing with your face.‘ But emancipating oneself from the injunctions that weigh on actresses is not always easy…”. This frankness, Pascale Arbillot also uses it to evoke her endometriosis which she has been talking about publicly since 2019, a disease that, however, did not prevent her from becoming pregnant before she turned 40. “I had never been so happy“, she confided to Biba three years ago.