Solène Delinger 12:16 p.m., February 1, 2023, modified at 12:18 p.m., February 01, 2023
In an interview with "Parisien" on Sunday January 29, Fabrice Luchini spoke at length about his anxiety.
The actor, who has been in therapy for 40 years, still has not found inner peace.
That's why he needs to take antidepressants...
Fabrice Luchini is not so happy as he lets it seem… Interviewed by our colleagues from Le
Parisien
on the occasion of the release of his next film
A Happy Man,
in theaters on February 15, the 71-year-old actor n did not hesitate to confide in his own mental health.
Always quick to put on a show on TV sets, Fabrice Luchini, in private, is much less jovial…
"I don't have a happy but anxious nature"
And, he assumes not to be "a happy man".
"It's no longer a goal," says the actor.
"Forty years of analysis have shown me that it's not for me, I don't have a happy but anxious nature, I take antidepressants, I sleep very badly. But it's a driving force for my job" , he explains.
"I don't dramatize"
Fabrice Luchini believes that this suffering is useful to him.
So he totally accepted it.
"I don't dramatize, I'm not unhappy to the point of being in psychiatry, but happy? What does that mean? Harmonized in temperament, good humored and able to be inactive? No. Freaked out , anxious, sensitive, uncomfortable with me, I must admit: my torments are not far enough away to call me happy".
Despite his torments, Fabrice Luchini manages to share moments of happiness with the people he loves, his partner Emmanuelle, and his daughter Emma, who has become a director.
Being on the boards also soothes him.
"The happiness that the public gives me, on the other hand, it is real, yes", he underlines before giving his definition of happiness: "To no longer have torments, to sleep, to eat, to make love, all that … You have to be very well for all that”.
Fabrice Luchini "perplexed" about the virtues of his therapy
And his therapy also helps him move forward, even if he sometimes doubts it: "I'm often perplexed about its virtues and sometimes tell myself that nothing has changed. Why am I continuing? Perhaps because they don't never solve and also that by talking about it, you piss off others less, you pour out your discomfort on one person and you are more presentable for the rest. For the relationship with the other, it's better, "concludes the comedian.