Benoit Poelvoorde? “He’s a hard worker as well as an attentive partner”, confides to 20 minutes, Daphne Pitakia who gives him the reply in the pretty comedy on the branch of Marie Garel Weiss. Despite the air of dilettante he likes to give himself, the Belgian actor works thoroughly on his roles, such as that of the crooked lawyer he composes with his former companion and partner (Agnès Jaoui) and a petty crook (Raphaël Quenard).
“The film embroiders around characters damaged by life, says Benoît Poelvoorde. They are not heroes, but beings who try to get out of trouble between the vagaries of existence and their own cracks. » The director of The party is over offers him a very fine role as a wounded man who regains a taste for life thanks to the friendship of a thirty-year-old as dented as he is.
The soul and the posterior
“I strip myself naked in the film, jokes Benoît Poelvoorde. I show my buttocks to attract spectators or even female spectators. This may be a little late, but I was told that nudity made entries so I got started! “His posterior is not the only aspect of his person that the actor reveals in this tender film. It also shows, more than ever, its fragility. “I soften with age, he concedes And I’m less afraid of revealing myself in every sense of the word. He knows how to be as touching as he is annoying before the public is gradually carried away by a performance full of nuances. “You have to believe that I am improving from film to film,” he confides. Even if I sometimes feel a little “has-been”, I take great pleasure in my job as an actor and I admit that I make efforts to be even better. »
This does not prevent Benoît Poelvoorde from having retained his devastating sense of humor “The hardest part was bathing in very cold water, he recalls. My “war machine” was not far off: I even thought I had lost it in the Atlantic. “Rest assured, the actor affirms that it was not and that all is well on the side of his virility. If we are content to take his word for it on this point, we can see that his talent is still just as brilliant.