"you ate like a pig": Gérard Jugnot confides his confusion with his son Arthur

Together on stage, Gérard and Arthur Jugnot sometimes find it difficult to collaborate, as the father explained on January 24…

Gérard Jugnot and his son Arthur share more than a blood relationship and a family name. The two evolve in the same professional environment: that of comedy. Father and son are playing together on the boards for the first time right now, in the room The day of the kiwi by Laetitia Colombani. guest in Media culture this January 24, Gérard Jugnot spoke on specifics of working, and in this case to play, with his son. And there are certainly advantages to this family sharing of roles… but not only.

“He often gives me advice”

While Philippe Vandel considered that such an association was all the more impressive as it had a monster of the theater within it, Gérard Jugnot clarified: “For him, I am his father. He is the one who often gives me advice too sincehe did a lot of theater productions. We are two actors. So it’s true that when I say ‘my son’ to him or he calls me ‘dad’, I don’t have to say to myself ‘hey, why is he telling me that?‘.” So much for the positive aspects of this theatrical duo. Mid-December, in the loft ofAs an aside, the legendary French actor had indeed already admitted that it was difficult for him to work with his son. Like a month earlier, this Tuesday, Gérard Jugnot explained how he asked a lot to her 42-year-old only son.

“There are two, three moments…”

“When he does his shows and I go to see him at the theatre, I only see what is wrong and it sucks. There are crazy parents, everything their children do is great. I tend to be a bit… I want everything to be good. If an actor sucks next to me, I say ‘well, he sucks, I’ll play with him more next time, let him make his career on his side and get on with it. When it’s your son…”explained the actor of the troop of Splendid before saying more about the evil he has to work calmly with Arthur Jugnot, evoking once again an anecdote which seems to be a source of discord between them: “He’s great in the play but there are two or three moments where he has little tics that annoy me. And then it always ends with ‘you didn’t tidy your dressing room’ and ‘you have a stain on your sweater, you ate like a pig. I say that to my son, but he might say the same thing because I eat like a pig. But I tidy up my dressing room better!”