The popular José Garcia made a big decision a few years ago: the actor voluntarily wanted to end his career. During this period, he increased his activities away from cinema and notably obtained a diploma…
José Garcia may love his job and be a prolific actor, who sometimes shoots up to five films a year, but he needed to take a real break from his career for several years.
Jose Garcia: “I stopped working for 2 years to…“
Now aged 60, José Garcia felt the need to put the brakes on his career at the age of 42, after filming the film His Majesty Minor in 2007.”I stopped working for two years to do whatever came to my mind, I was lucky to be able to do it“, he explained to the TikTok account On Time. And during this interlude, the actor, who had long wanted to be a cabinetmaker, was able to realize some of his desires. For example, he took up extreme sports and took his license to become an airplane pilot.
But why does the hero of The truth if I lie! And The lords Did he want to distance himself from his profession? “I had reached such saturation with work, I was no longer in reality“, he confided before detailing: “We spent almost two months doing promotional tours at the time (…) I went from one film to another and I said to myself: ‘But what moment am I living in? When can I bring something to roles?‘”
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This father of two daughters, Laurène and Thelma, born from his union with Isabelle Doval, therefore took the time to “make your dreams come true before reaching the end of your days” and then resumed his career with “even more appetite than before“. José Garcia, expected in the film Elise under the influencetherefore does not regret his choice, on the contrary. “You should never wait. There are lots of people who say: ‘When I retire, I’ll do this thing…’ Actually no, we have to do it now.”said the actor.
The actor now has a clear course of action: above all, he wants to enjoy life to the fullest! “I don’t need to have 300 billion dollars, I’ll always end up broke anyway“, he said. Born to Spanish immigrant parents who became housekeepers in private mansions in the 16th arrondissement of Paris (his mother was a cook and his father a valet), José Garcia today appreciates the little pleasures of life!
