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It was one of the last legends of American cinema: the American Kirk Douglas died Wednesday at the age of 103 years, as announced by his son Michael, also actor. This icon of the golden age of Hollywood leaves behind a 60-year career, a hundred films including some in the Pantheon of the seventh art like Spartacus by Stanley Kubrick in 1960… and an interview given in French to Europe 1 in 1979, at the microphone of Jean-Claude Brialy.
"Child's share"
In this interview, Kirk Douglas talks about his vision of the acting profession. "The real actors always keep a little youth in them. They are children," he says. "If a piece of you does not stay with this part of a child, you cannot play the role. How can one say that I am a cowboy against Burt Lancaster with the rifle in hand [ as in Rules of accounts to OK Corral , note] , if I'm not a bit of a kid? "
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Kirk Douglas spoke French because he had married a Frenchwoman, but not only: "When I arrived in Paris for the first time, in 1953, I arrived here to make a film with Anatole Litvak, An Act of love . at the time, I did not speak French, "he confided to Jean-Claude Brialy's microphone. "Since he wanted to make this film in two versions and I am selfish, I said that I was going to do it. They told me that I did not speak French. I said: 'Hey, I'm going to 'learn !' I started studying every day and finally I did it in both versions. "