During a walk in Montreuil alongside Pascale Clark, actor Reda Kateb mentioned the disappearance of Jean-Pierre Bacri.
An admirer of his work, he says a collaborative project was under discussion.
The cancer that took him away at the age of 69 decided otherwise.
INTERVIEW
In Montreuil, the district is calm during this period of sanitary restrictions.
"We'll have to come back when everything is open", laughs Reda Kateb, accompanied by Pascale Clarke.
On the front of a kiosk is still the front page of
Paris Match
magazine
paying tribute to Jean-Pierre Bacri, who died on January 18.
"For me, it's a real missed date," sighs the actor.
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"He left much too early"
Known for his role in
A Prophet
or
Hippocrates
, a film thanks to which he won the César for best actor in a supporting role in 2015, Reda Kateb reveals that the question of a collaboration with Jean-Pierre Bacri had arisen shortly before the outbreak of the pandemic.
"Without having met, we had told mutual friends with whom we like to work that we wanted to play together. We had planned to have dinner together ..." Very quickly, however, the health situation deteriorated, preventing their meeting. .
Jean-Pierre Bacri finally died of cancer at the age of 69.
"He left much too early", laments Reda Kateb.
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At the microphone of Europe 1, he shares his admiration for this disillusioned grumpy, renowned for his anti-hero roles.
"I was an opener in the cinema when he released
The taste of others
, a very beautiful film", in which Jean-Pierre Bacri plays one of the main roles and for which he wrote the screenplay with Agnès Jaoui.
Reda Kateb remembers a film "very strong, without giving a lesson", and which questions the notion "of good taste and bad taste": "How can culture connect us or be excluding?"
French cinema is now the orphan of one of its central figures.