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Breaking up and lacking recognition, the actor went through a dark period in the late 90s. “Mission Cleopatra” allowed him to get back on track.
Gérard Darmon confided that one of his breakups was complicated to manage.
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Gérard Darmon is back on stage with the play “A delicate situation”. For the occasion, he decided to confide in Paris Match. In particular, he returned to the period of his life during which nothing was really going well.
At the end of the 1990s, the actor notably suffered from depression, recalls the French media. “My life was going downhill after a breakup,” he said. Even if he does not drop a name, the magazine recalls that he had been married until 1999 with actress Mathilda May, mother of his two children Sarah (born in 1994) and Jules (born in 1997).
The actor then accumulated a sentimental disappointment and a lack of recognition from show business which began to weigh on his morale a little. He is either ignored at award ceremonies or gets snatched from the limelight. “I end up telling myself that the profession still sends me messages…” But he admits that at the time, his attitude towards the profession could have played tricks on him, he who was considered “arrogant, aggressive with critics.
“Smoking weed was almost cultural at home”
At this time when everything was going badly for him, Gérard Darmon could have switched to old temptations, he who admits to having touched several drugs but, very fortunately, at that time in his life he was already far from these substances. “I had already quit. Smoking weed was almost cultural for me. The other drugs, I had a very aristocratic, very luxurious consumption of them… I do not make a standard of them”, specified the actor.
Ultimately, it will be a film that will put an end to his depressive state and help him get back on the right foot. Indeed, he is recruited by Alain Chabat to play Amonbofis in “Asterix: mission Cleopatra”. Although still “in bulk”, the filming is going wonderfully, the understanding with the other actors, starting with Jamel Debbouze, is great and that perks him up. “And behind, we will make 15 million admissions”, he underlines, proud to have then gained notoriety and love from the public. The sequel will only be an uninterrupted series of projects and, in terms of private life, there too things have improved. He now shares his life with Christine.
(Lematin.ch)