If the state of health of Pierre Arditi no longer aroused concern the day after his discomfort on the stage of the Édouard VII theater, his interview published this Saturday in Le Parisien, reassures even more.
Showing, according to our colleagues, an “impressive dynamism”, the actor confirmed his desire to return to the stage very soon to give the answer to Muriel Robin in the play Lapin, by Samuel Benchetrit: “Now it’s okay. I’m tired, huh… Really tired. They gave me medicine, everything to help me resist, it’s going to be fine,” he confided, reassured by the ruled out hypothesis of a stroke.
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Aged 78, Pierre Arditi recognizes that he must take care of himself without agreeing to “slow down” his activity. “Never! I will have all death to slow down. There will be two other plays already planned behind Lapin in which I will perform. Everything is getting back to normal,” said the actor. Before adding: “I accept, as they say, growing old. I’m not cacochymous, I’m not doddering, I’m not crippled, but I can’t do anything anymore. I must first protect myself for what I have to do, that is to say my job. And live with those I love.”
“We must not squander the life we have to live, but we must not miss it. Saving too much is not a good idea,” said the actor forcefully. In addition to the theater, Pierre Arditi supports an exhibition dedicated to the painting of his father Georges Arditi, at the Piscine museum in Roubaix, from October 7. Here again, he intends to participate in the festivities: “I will of course be at the opening of the exhibition, in Roubaix. Before playing the next day. That’s my life.”