Jacques Weber: "Playing a bastard doesn't bother me"
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Jacques Weber, in 2024. JONTY CHAMPELOVIER
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In the play "The Unjust," the actor plays a banker who was notably the holder of Hitler's copyright. A true bastard, far from the flamboyant heroes he portrayed, and whom he evokes with the tranquility of wise old men.
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The phrase "sacred monster," worn to the bone, makes him chuckle, but he accepts it without displeasure. It's true that the man's very frame, his thunderous voice, on stage and in real life, are imposing. Yet there is something calm about the 75-year-old actor. Not jaded or worn out, but at peace. Here is Jacques Weber, finally cured of his chronic lymphocytic leukemia: "I just received my platelet results, it's rolling! I really felt the wind of the cannonball, this fight makes the most of the time that remains."
In recent years, he has lived and performed intensely. He has (re)discovered a second youth, at the same time as a younger audience has also discovered him. First, he met the author and director Pascal Rambert, who wrote (in part) for him the show "Architecture," the tragic shipwreck of a Viennese family in a Europe devoured by fascism, then "Ranger," a magnificent portrait of a man who, in the twilight of his…
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