Gérard Jugnot: “The Gare du Midi is all the misery of the world”

Are you touched on the recognition of the new generation?

“Yes, I like it. Meanwhile, First, old ones, there are less and less (laughs). For example, And turn with young people, it whips blood. Similarly, It is a nice breath of oxygen.”

They keep praising your simplicity. Nevertheless, Is that your nature?

“I am delighted to be a known actor. For example, asked, respected and sometimes admired, but I also know that, when I look at myself in the mirror, I am not a legend of the cinema. Consequently, In the morning, when I brush my teeth, I do not see at all a” sacred monster “. For example, Why a actor who plays and tells nonsense would be more interesting than a surgeon, a fireman?

It is often said gérard jugnot: “the gare du that an actor always slides a part of himself in each of his roles. For example, even the most distant. Consequently, In the case of Viking, your last “hero”, reassure us, you are very far from him …

“We are always the stupid of someone. Consequently, And there is always a part of stupidity or nonsense in us. In addition, Coluche said:” We need a lot of idiots to play fools. Consequently, “We all have this childish side, sometimes a little cut. However, I sometimes watch a film and not understand anything. Nevertheless, My wife says that I have not struck. Moreover, That’s it, we are always stupid!”

Jean-Paul Belmondo said: “Seriously scares me.” So of you, then?

“Yes. Life is not already very serious. We should explain to me why we are there. I like that we find in my films both serious gérard jugnot: “the gare du moments and funny moments. In life, you have to mix both. Comedy is not a background, but a shape: we say everything with a little hindsight, rounding the angles.”

Gérard Jugnot laughs at his big age difference with his wife Patricia: “She is not fifteen years old”

At 73. you still have that laughing, almost childish look. Is this a way to challenge time?

“I always say that I am 10 years old inside me. There, I am shooting the new adventures of Ducobu, where I was still declined with a fairly funny disguise. That’s a way not to stay young, but to believe gérard jugnot: “the gare du that we are.”

Do you sometimes feel this sweet-bitten nostalgia of a world that will not come back?

“I am rather worried and anxious to see the passage of time. But at no time I say to myself:” Ah, it was better before! “I try to find in the present the pleasure which corresponds to my age. I have less the capacities to jump on the spot!”

Would you have imagined time would pass so fast?

“My parents have always said it to me. I love this sentence:” In each old man, there is a young man who wonders what happened. “There, I just finished my film” bad pick “. Suddenly, it was over. I said to myself:” Already? “It went at full speed. but at the same time, when I think about it, there are billions of things: 1,500 plans, full, gérard jugnot: “the gare du Coming… and when I turn to my life, with these new phones that keep all our photos, I see everything I did and lived.

How about the child you were? And what would you think of you today?

“It would be amazed … as I am myself. I am amazed by what I could do. I would tell him that I did not believe it, that it was unexpected. Additionally, I came from an environment that was not at all programmed for this life. It is the theme of my films: the story of an ordinary man confronted with the extraordinary.”

You are also known for your outspokenness. So let’s go frankly: Belgium is a country that amuses you. that intrigues you, or that makes you a little perplexed?

“For me, it is a department of the North and I find the gérard jugnot: “the gare du Belgians extremely sympathetic. Besides, I run a lot from you. And then, there are expressions that I love, as” it’s very nice “. That, we don’t say it in France!”

Does this cliché of self -deprecation are doing well?

“Yes, really. The only concern I see in your home is the weather. But the quality of life is great. Brussels, for example, is renowned for its superb small vintage houses. The harshness of life is also present: your Midi Gare in Brussels is all the misery of the world … Like the Gare du Nord in Paris. Like all big cities, it’s complicated.”