As he releases a new film, Pierre Richard has made long secrets about his life and his career, on promotion. The opportunity for the 91 -year -old actor to return to his ties with the aristocracy.
At 91, Pierre Richard signs his comeback to the realization with the film The man who saw the bear who saw the man. In the show Legend From Guillaume Pley, he notably returned to his childhood, he who lived in a castle. Today, it is between Paris and its Domaine de l’Aude – a vineyard of around twenty hectares located in Gruissan – that he lives.
Pierre Richard, his life between castle and bohemian …
Pierre Richard, born in Valenciennes (in the North), comes from the provincial bourgeoisie. Thus, he grew up for a time in luxury because, on the side of his father, his family had made a fortune in the steel industry. But the latter had quickly squandered his money … “It must be said that he had other responsibilities to assume: hunting, horse racing, women and cars“, had dropped the actor to We twoa few years ago.
However, he has lively memories of his life in the paternal castle. “”I was from an aristocratic family, who lives in a castle. My grandfather was polytechnician, my uncle was polytechnician, my cousin was polytechnician and I was nothing. I lived in the castle for some time with curious images. Sometimes I was alone because they left. I was in the large dining room with Robert, the butler, who was behind me and who said: ‘Mr. Pierre Richard, do you still want a little soup?’“He said in Legend.
A daily trivial daily: “There is not many people who knew this. It’s still a curious daily life… “But Pierre Richard has also experienced a simpler, more modest life. Because, on the side of his mother, money did not flow to waves and she separated from her husband.”On my mother’s side, the bohemian: we were polenting every Sunday. My maternal grandfather was an Italian immigrant. Which gave me this sense of balance. Or rather imbalance“, he also specified to We two.
Pierre Richard escapes from his golden prison: “I had to avoid the goalkeeper with his dog“”
Behind the thick walls of the family castle, the young Pierre Richard very early discovered a passion for music. “”I started to love jazz with friends, we even set up an orchestra“, He revealed. A passion he lived in gentle, far from looks, until things become a little more serious:”We ended up with a contract “. This then led him to go out late at night, discreetly, to honor small performances in bars: “When everyone was sleeping,, My friends sent me headlights on the other side of the castle, me with my radiator I said: ‘I understood.’“”
Then started a real night escape number: “I went down in pajamas. I slipped along the wall, I had to avoid the goalkeeper with his dog. I went up on the wall, I went down on the hood of the car and I played jazz until 2am“. Until the day the actor of the films The big blonde with a black shoe And Fugitives got caught!
