On the phone yesterday Sunday late morning, the voice of Pierre Arditi, 78, is clear and energetic: “It’s okay, I’m staying calm, I’m not moving, I need to pay a little attention to myself at the moment” . However, he intends to inaugurate the exhibition dedicated to his father, Georges Arditi, which begins on October 7, at the Roubaix swimming pool, in the North.

“I’m tired, but it’s normal that I’m tired,” continues the actor who will undergo other medical examinations in the coming days. “I’m careful all the same, I’m starting to understand that I’m not going to be able to continue clowning around like that, at this pace. It’s not going to be feasible.” He doesn’t particularly have an appetite: “That would suit me, like that, I’ll lose weight, that’s better,” he laughs, smiling. I’m a little scared of the restart, but that’s normal.”

Pierre Arditi, who is currently resting at home in Paris, is not afraid of having a “gap” in his memory, but of lacking the “energy it takes to play”. “But it’s going to be okay, it’s going to be okay,” he promises. “It’s not a stroke,” he told us again after his vagal discomfort last Wednesday. “Vagal discomfort and hypoglycemia,” he said.

Insatiable, he is already preparing two new pieces. The Cyril Gély Prize with Ludmila Mikaël, at the Hébertot theater in January 2024. They will play two scientists, Otta Hahn and Lise Meitner who have not seen each other for several years and find themselves in a room at the Grand Hotel in Stockholm. And in September of the same year, a comedy by Alexis Macquart at the Montparnasse theater.

Previously, the actor and his family collaborated with the Estrine museum in Saint-Rémy-de-Provence and the Piscine de Roubaix, to develop an exhibition entitled “Georges Arditi (1914-2012), from one reality to another “. It will take place from October 7 to January 7, 2024. On October 16, the artist’s children, Pierre, Catherine, Danièle and Rachel Arditi will read letters, newspaper extracts and texts on painting.

Finally, Pierre Arditi will be in Alphonse, the series by Nicolas Bedos which will soon be visible on Prime video, alongside Jean Dujardin, Vincent Macaigne, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Marie-Christine Barrault and Nicole Garcia. He will also be in the fall in the title role of Clemenceau et Marguerite, a TV film by Lorraine Lévy and the new film by Pascal Thomas, Le voyage en pajamas.