Pierre Niney imposes the law of the strongest in "Goliath"

• A lobbyist, a lawyer and an activist clash violently over pesticides in "Goliath", an activist thriller for the environmental cause.

• Actor Pierre Niney portrays a chilling technocrat in this thriller which denounces the actions of agrochemical giants ready to do anything to sell dangerous products.

We really want to slap Pierre Niney when we see him in

by Frédéric Tellier.

Not the actor of course, but the odious lobbyist he plays in this well-executed environmental thriller.

Sold to the cause of pesticide manufacturers, he responds to Gilles Lellouche as a victims' lawyer and to Emmanuelle Bercot as an activist fighting against these carcinogenic products.

“I managed to meet lobbyists to prepare for my role, confides the actor to

.

In particular a 27-year-old young woman who left this profession and who surprised me with her ambivalent side.

She described to me the abuses of the system and then defended her when I became indignant.

The actor reveals a new facet of his talent in this thankless role.

Without ever sinking into caricature, the man he plays juggles arguments to defend glyphosates despite the overwhelming evidence of the dangers these chemicals represent.

like a shark

“My character adapts what he believes to what suits him, insists Pierre Niney.

I made a point of giving him nuances so that he corresponds to real life: he is not a monster but an attentive family man who can be charming outside his work.

The actor particularly worked on the attitude of this chilling technocrat.

"I tried to deliver a geometric performance as if I were becoming a shark," he says.

Until now, I took care of the organic side of my character.

There, I explored a very different aspect of my game.” Which makes it scary.

The spectator can only be impressed by the metamorphosis of the actor.

It is hard to recognize the sympathetic investigator of

or the dandy spy of

front of this terrifyingly cold war machine when he denies the cancers caused by the products he defends.

“In fact, everything is a question of environment, insists Pierre Niney.

As lobbyists do not belong to the same social class as activists and patients, they can ignore them.

“Nothing seems to move this boy with a keen intelligence and a dry heart supported by a colleague played by Laurent Stocker.

“I would like the film to reopen the debate on pesticides, declares Pierre Niney.

That a few weeks before the elections, it invites us to question how we want to feed ourselves and our children.

We come out of

galvanized by the desire to wage war on his character and his fellows.

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