Benoît Poelvoorde stops (once more) the cinema to commit himself to “a huge non-public assignment”

Benoît Poelvoorde publicizes that he's stopping the cinema and that the screenplay of Podium 2 is about to be completed. CHRISTOPHE ARCHAMBAULT / AFP

In complete promotion of his new movie on the branchthe Belgian actor proclaims all over again that he desires to prevent the cinema to commit himself to a mysterious personal assignment.

Benoît Poelvoorde takes a smash. While Podium 2 might be in full training and that the actor promotes at the branch, his new movie in theaters on July 19, he bows out. In an interview with the Belgian every day The night, he announces that he's ending his movie career, “for a very massive non-public projectfor which he desires to go to the quit. “I will take stock with myself but it has not anything to do with the cinema“, he confided.

On this undertaking, the actor stays very evasive. “A year and a half of in the past, I signed up for a reasonably prestigious scholarship, larger than the Villa Medici. I had to put up a huge cultural and creative file to gain this grant. I owe myself some privacy, I can’t tell you the call of this scholarship due to the fact if I don’t have it I will appear for an fool“, explains Benoît Poelvoorde. He adds that “it's miles a piece some distance from interpretation. I cross up a stage, cross beyond the simple public artist file. It can be international. I go in addition than Belgium, to the USA no question.He received’t say more.

The actor had already introduced his desire to forestall performing in 2010. At the time, he promised his target market that he could now not seem on the massive screen. In subtext, he admitted to having personal troubles. But in 4 years, he'll shoot in twelve movies. For a long term, Poelvoorde’s coronary heart has swayed among the tumultuous world of cinema and anonymity. In 2014, he introduced yet again that he turned into retiring. “Cinema is arduous, I’m a bit exhausted, worn-out, he confides at the time. It’s a job that you have to do with enthusiasm, otherwise it doesn’t work, and I’m fed up. For me, it has come to be a activity.»

Today, Benoît Poelvoorde regrets that human beings constantly talk to him approximately cinema. And mainly of himself. “Today, the dialogue is at once about me, and now not approximately the others. I love talking to human beings, however if it’s just about me, I’m now not fascinated. Very quick, human beings simplest speak to me about cinema, despite the fact that I don’t care. Me, I’m pretty curious about what people do.He laments.

But Benoît Poelvoorde will no longer disappear at once. On July 19, he's going to megastar in the film with the aid of Marie Garel-Weiss, at the branchin which as a failed lawyer, he pleads the cause of a young con man who claims his innocence. Podium 2 would be inside the pipes, however once more, that is records to be inquisitive about a grain of salt. “He is in writing. I read the primary model, presently in correction. I’ll provide you with a scoop: I’ll be there, but the story is more approximately Couscous (the Polnareff fan played by using Jean-Paul Rouve): it’s Couscous’ revenge.”he told the Belgian daily Last hour. Finally, far from the huge screen, the actor is running on a play with Bérénice Bourgueil.