Maybe it's just me, but he seems like he focused on all the wrong things in his life and he is trying to focus on his daughter's career to take his mind out of things.
22.Alain:...There was a time when there were a French cinema, an Italian cinema but now there is no longer a "French cinema", there are personalities.
Audrey: But there is this impression that the French cinema still resists better than the Italian cinema for example.
Alain:...Because there is no longer an Italian cinema, just one or two personalities...Maybe that the French cinema resists better but all around the world, in China or Japan, French cinema is no longer what it used to be.
21.Audrey: What do you think about today's cinema? You've had such an impressive career and it's not finished...Do you think that today's cinema gives young people the desire of acting?
Alain:I would say less than before because there are less personalities than in the past century. The problem is that I don't feel good in this century and I think cinema feels the same, like an old man who is dying, maybe because of the TV industry too...
20.Alain:...They are too young to know, I had already lived a lot when they were born.
Is the interview soon finished?
Audrey: No!
Alain: I wanted to ask you something that has nothing to do with the subject. I was very moved by Maria Schneider's death this morning. I met her when she was very young, I engaged her for a movie with Mireille. She has had a difficult life and I think she is very happy now, more than us, with Brando. She's happy at last.
18.Audrey: Anouchka is 20 years old. During teenage years, which are difficult years for a daughter and her father, did that kind of conversation occured?
Alain: No, never. It happened with Alain-Fabien, not with Anouchka. I was lucky with her. It's more difficult with Alain-Fabien.
Audrey: I read that you're wrinting your biography?
Alain: Not really. If I ever write about my life one day, it will be for my children, for them to know where I'm from and who I am and what I did in my life...
17.Alain:...Your profession is probably, for you, the best profession in the world...
Audrey:...I'm less famous in Japan than you!
Alain: Well, I'm happy that my children exercise the best profession in the world.
Audrey: Being Alain Delon's daughter is not easy.
Alain: It's not easy. Some people told me the same thing 20 years ago about Anthony and I replied: "You know, it's not always easy to be the father of the son of Alain Delon!"
16.Audrey: We (the people that are not actors) sometimes hear bad things about the acting environment and its "world". You've never thought that this acting environment wasn't done for your children?
Alain: No, because I have another opinion of my profession. When someone asks me that, I say: "Why wouldn't my daughter (or my son) exercise the best profession in the world"? It's my point of my view. As for me, this is the best job in the world....
15.Audrey: Acting with your daughter but also acting with your son, because you will maybe be in a movie with Anthony soon. He's no longer 20 years old but it's still important. There is also your other son, Alain-Fabien, who is 17.
Alain: He wants to exercise this profession too, which makes me feel very happy because I have a passion for dynasties in France, like the Blier dynasty. This profession will remain in my family and it really moves me.
14.Audrey: We don't really know if it's the actor or the real father that is shown in this extract.You seem to be very moved!
Alain: People say that we are not acting, we are living. You have to understand that, with the career I've had, acting with my daughter who is 20 years old is something exceptional. I could stop my career after all the performances of this play without any problem.
13.Alain:...I thank her for that. It was hard to live back then but it's good now.
Audrey: Did your mother tell you once that she was satisfied with you?
Alain: She was very happy before dying. I did everything she wanted me to do.
Audrey: Let's watch a second extract, it's about incomprehension between the father and his rebel daughter who tells him that he doesn't know who she really is.
12.Alain:But we always say that girls are close to their father, and boys to their mother.
Audrey: Absolutely, but like you said, you play both father and mother for her.
In this play, you're harsh with your circle...Are you like that in real life, difficult to live with?
Alain: It depends on the situation and the moment but it's true, I'm difficult to get along with, more difficult with my children than with other people. I remember that my mother was very harsh with me but I thank her for that
11.Alain: She has already left the nest with her boyfriend, who is a guy I really appreciate, an exceptional guy. I'm very happy because they are really in love. They are very happy together, even if we both remain very close.
Audrey: I can imagine that when she left the nest in real life, it was a difficult moment for you.
Alain: Yes, very painful.
Audrey: Mums are generally more reluctant than fathers when their child leaves the nest.
10.Alain: The father's figure feels that way. In the play, her mother has left for 12 years and I represent her father and her mother since then. I represent everything and she's too young for me and I tell her that in the play. She then tells me that I don't realize who she really is and my character answers that he doesn't want to see her growing and aging and changing. I'm afraid of being alone and of my daughter leaving me.
9.Alain: ...She's incredibly easy-going. I don't want to insist on that, you'll see that by yourself.
Audrey: We understand why you ordered this play because it's about the strained relationship between a girl and her father, who is widowed. She wants to be independent and it's not easy to let the baby bird leave the nest...Let's watch an extract of the play.
Do you think that Anouchka is still too young to leave the nest in real life?
8.Audrey: This is not the first time that you play with Anouchka because she had already played with in the movie "Le Lion", almost ten years ago. Do you notice that she has improved, that she has come out of her shell?
Alain: Absolutely but I was surprised because everyone on "The Lion"' set was scared and she came to the set as if she was used to doing that everyday.I dare to believe that she has been into this set atmosphere since she was born...
6.Audrey: So, does it mean that you've felt his presence (or absence) in this theater? (Brialy died a few years ago)
Alain: Yes, and I use his dressing room. Nobody has touched this dressing room since his death, so it moves me. Every night, just before performing, my daughter tells me: "let's think about Jean-Paul". It's really moving.
4.Alain:...If it wasn't a success, it would create problems, not for me because my career is already done but for my daughter because her career is ahead of her.
Audrey: Are you trusting, now? You've already been playing 10 times.
Alain: I'm filled with wonder by her so I let the others see her and opine about her performance.
Audrey: I read that you have stage fright before performing...
3.Alain:...She was studying for her baccalauréat and at the Cours Simon and when I was talking to her about theater and discipline, control, I felt that she wasn't prepared for that kind of stuff yet. So the performance for the play was postponed.
Audrey: Because it was important for you that your first time together on stage would be totally successful...
Alain: it's important for the rest of my daughter's career as she wants to exercise this profession.
2.Audrey: You haven't been on stage for three years. The last time you were, it was for the play called "Love Letters", with Anouk Aimee. Why have you been absent for such a long time?
Alain: I have done other things during that time and, one year and a half ago, I felt I wanted to play on stage with my daughter. She is 20 years old now and I ordered Eric Assous to create a play about my daughter and I. We had to play it one year ago but I saw that my daughter wasn't ready for that...
Oh my god!!! Alain is so beautiful!!! he is so handsome in this interview,my god! thank you so much for sharing nnikolle,this is fantastic,merci.I would love to put this interview on my blog with your permission my friend.Many greetings nnikolle!
@pereznuix Almudena you not need for my permission, my friend! Please put him on your wonderful blog! and yes, Delon looks great, like always! many greetings my good friend!
Good news, AD has recovered..I looked up the schedule at the "Bouffes-Parisiens", and it's crazy! On certain days they give two performances..And the play is going to be on until May...It must be very hard physically.
Maybe it's just me, but he seems like he focused on all the wrong things in his life and he is trying to focus on his daughter's career to take his mind out of things.
DanaVonDette 1 month ago
Toujours un homme beau, sexy et adorable. xx
elfinia 1 month ago
Great! Thanks a lot for the translation!
Tanechka80 11 months ago
Many thanks for you Lyly for your translation! many greetings my friend and thanks again!
nnikolle 1 year ago
23.Audrey: But Alain Delon is still popular all around the world.
Alain: Yes, apparently :)
Audrey and Alain: Thank you
nnikolle 1 year ago
22.Alain:...There was a time when there were a French cinema, an Italian cinema but now there is no longer a "French cinema", there are personalities.
Audrey: But there is this impression that the French cinema still resists better than the Italian cinema for example.
Alain:...Because there is no longer an Italian cinema, just one or two personalities...Maybe that the French cinema resists better but all around the world, in China or Japan, French cinema is no longer what it used to be.
nnikolle 1 year ago
21.Audrey: What do you think about today's cinema? You've had such an impressive career and it's not finished...Do you think that today's cinema gives young people the desire of acting?
Alain:I would say less than before because there are less personalities than in the past century. The problem is that I don't feel good in this century and I think cinema feels the same, like an old man who is dying, maybe because of the TV industry too...
nnikolle 1 year ago
20.Alain:...They are too young to know, I had already lived a lot when they were born.
Is the interview soon finished?
Audrey: No!
Alain: I wanted to ask you something that has nothing to do with the subject. I was very moved by Maria Schneider's death this morning. I met her when she was very young, I engaged her for a movie with Mireille. She has had a difficult life and I think she is very happy now, more than us, with Brando. She's happy at last.
nnikolle 1 year ago
19.Alain:...They were born 20 years ago and don't really know how has been my career. I want them to know where I'm from and who I am.
It's all very long to explain and there are things easier to write than to tell.
Audrey: But if you write about these things, your children won't be the only ones to know, other people will know your life.
Alain: Many people know that kind of things about my life but not my children...
nnikolle 1 year ago
18.Audrey: Anouchka is 20 years old. During teenage years, which are difficult years for a daughter and her father, did that kind of conversation occured?
Alain: No, never. It happened with Alain-Fabien, not with Anouchka. I was lucky with her. It's more difficult with Alain-Fabien.
Audrey: I read that you're wrinting your biography?
Alain: Not really. If I ever write about my life one day, it will be for my children, for them to know where I'm from and who I am and what I did in my life...
nnikolle 1 year ago
17.Alain:...Your profession is probably, for you, the best profession in the world...
Audrey:...I'm less famous in Japan than you!
Alain: Well, I'm happy that my children exercise the best profession in the world.
Audrey: Being Alain Delon's daughter is not easy.
Alain: It's not easy. Some people told me the same thing 20 years ago about Anthony and I replied: "You know, it's not always easy to be the father of the son of Alain Delon!"
nnikolle 1 year ago
16.Audrey: We (the people that are not actors) sometimes hear bad things about the acting environment and its "world". You've never thought that this acting environment wasn't done for your children?
Alain: No, because I have another opinion of my profession. When someone asks me that, I say: "Why wouldn't my daughter (or my son) exercise the best profession in the world"? It's my point of my view. As for me, this is the best job in the world....
nnikolle 1 year ago
15.Audrey: Acting with your daughter but also acting with your son, because you will maybe be in a movie with Anthony soon. He's no longer 20 years old but it's still important. There is also your other son, Alain-Fabien, who is 17.
Alain: He wants to exercise this profession too, which makes me feel very happy because I have a passion for dynasties in France, like the Blier dynasty. This profession will remain in my family and it really moves me.
It's a wish and a choice for me.
nnikolle 1 year ago
14.Audrey: We don't really know if it's the actor or the real father that is shown in this extract.You seem to be very moved!
Alain: People say that we are not acting, we are living. You have to understand that, with the career I've had, acting with my daughter who is 20 years old is something exceptional. I could stop my career after all the performances of this play without any problem.
nnikolle 1 year ago
13.Alain:...I thank her for that. It was hard to live back then but it's good now.
Audrey: Did your mother tell you once that she was satisfied with you?
Alain: She was very happy before dying. I did everything she wanted me to do.
Audrey: Let's watch a second extract, it's about incomprehension between the father and his rebel daughter who tells him that he doesn't know who she really is.
nnikolle 1 year ago
It's very hard to let the children go, even if they remain under the same roof...just one day you realize they are not your little babies anymore..
olgalli 1 year ago
12.Alain:But we always say that girls are close to their father, and boys to their mother.
Audrey: Absolutely, but like you said, you play both father and mother for her.
In this play, you're harsh with your circle...Are you like that in real life, difficult to live with?
Alain: It depends on the situation and the moment but it's true, I'm difficult to get along with, more difficult with my children than with other people. I remember that my mother was very harsh with me but I thank her for that
nnikolle 1 year ago
11.Alain: She has already left the nest with her boyfriend, who is a guy I really appreciate, an exceptional guy. I'm very happy because they are really in love. They are very happy together, even if we both remain very close.
Audrey: I can imagine that when she left the nest in real life, it was a difficult moment for you.
Alain: Yes, very painful.
Audrey: Mums are generally more reluctant than fathers when their child leaves the nest.
nnikolle 1 year ago
10.Alain: The father's figure feels that way. In the play, her mother has left for 12 years and I represent her father and her mother since then. I represent everything and she's too young for me and I tell her that in the play. She then tells me that I don't realize who she really is and my character answers that he doesn't want to see her growing and aging and changing. I'm afraid of being alone and of my daughter leaving me.
Audrey: So the day it happens in real life...
nnikolle 1 year ago
9.Alain: ...She's incredibly easy-going. I don't want to insist on that, you'll see that by yourself.
Audrey: We understand why you ordered this play because it's about the strained relationship between a girl and her father, who is widowed. She wants to be independent and it's not easy to let the baby bird leave the nest...Let's watch an extract of the play.
Do you think that Anouchka is still too young to leave the nest in real life?
nnikolle 1 year ago
8.Audrey: This is not the first time that you play with Anouchka because she had already played with in the movie "Le Lion", almost ten years ago. Do you notice that she has improved, that she has come out of her shell?
Alain: Absolutely but I was surprised because everyone on "The Lion"' set was scared and she came to the set as if she was used to doing that everyday.I dare to believe that she has been into this set atmosphere since she was born...
nnikolle 1 year ago
Thank you a lot, for your translation, Lyly!
nnikolle 1 year ago
7.Audrey: When you say that nothing has changed in his dressing room, does it mean that there are still some pictures?
Alain: Yes, because nothing has changed, as if he was still here.
Audrey: So there are memories in common?
Alain: Exactly, since 1956.
nnikolle 1 year ago
6.Audrey: So, does it mean that you've felt his presence (or absence) in this theater? (Brialy died a few years ago)
Alain: Yes, and I use his dressing room. Nobody has touched this dressing room since his death, so it moves me. Every night, just before performing, my daughter tells me: "let's think about Jean-Paul". It's really moving.
Audrey: Really? Every night?
Alain: Yes, yes.
nnikolle 1 year ago
5.Audrey:...Like any father who's worried for his daughter, which is something perfectly understandable but now you're completely relieved.
Alain: Yes, I think that the audience has reassured us too.
Audrey: You come back to Jean-Claude Brialy's theater for this play. He was your friend.
Alain: I wanted to play in his theater because I told my daughter that he would see us and that it's important for her, for her first time on stage.
nnikolle 1 year ago
4.Alain:...If it wasn't a success, it would create problems, not for me because my career is already done but for my daughter because her career is ahead of her.
Audrey: Are you trusting, now? You've already been playing 10 times.
Alain: I'm filled with wonder by her so I let the others see her and opine about her performance.
Audrey: I read that you have stage fright before performing...
Alain:...No, I was worried for her...
nnikolle 1 year ago
3.Alain:...She was studying for her baccalauréat and at the Cours Simon and when I was talking to her about theater and discipline, control, I felt that she wasn't prepared for that kind of stuff yet. So the performance for the play was postponed.
Audrey: Because it was important for you that your first time together on stage would be totally successful...
Alain: it's important for the rest of my daughter's career as she wants to exercise this profession.
nnikolle 1 year ago
2.Audrey: You haven't been on stage for three years. The last time you were, it was for the play called "Love Letters", with Anouk Aimee. Why have you been absent for such a long time?
Alain: I have done other things during that time and, one year and a half ago, I felt I wanted to play on stage with my daughter. She is 20 years old now and I ordered Eric Assous to create a play about my daughter and I. We had to play it one year ago but I saw that my daughter wasn't ready for that...
nnikolle 1 year ago
1.Audrey (the journalist): Do you feel better?
Alain: Yes, much better.
Audrey: You've been somewhat ill and you had to cancel two performances. It must be hard to cancel performances for an actor...
Alain: For an actor like me, it is because I like what I do and that's why I went back to stage yesterday.
Audrey: Now you're back and you will perform until May...
Alain: Until May 14th. 100 performances, except if the audience wants more.
nnikolle 1 year ago
Oh my god!!! Alain is so beautiful!!! he is so handsome in this interview,my god! thank you so much for sharing nnikolle,this is fantastic,merci.I would love to put this interview on my blog with your permission my friend.Many greetings nnikolle!
pereznuix 1 year ago
@pereznuix Almudena you not need for my permission, my friend! Please put him on your wonderful blog! and yes, Delon looks great, like always! many greetings my good friend!
nnikolle 1 year ago
@nnikolle Thank you dear nnikolle,as always you are so KIND! many greetings!
pereznuix 1 year ago
@pereznuix always with great pleasure for you and for your wonderful blog! many greetings, my friend!
nnikolle 1 year ago
Good news, AD has recovered..I looked up the schedule at the "Bouffes-Parisiens", and it's crazy! On certain days they give two performances..And the play is going to be on until May...It must be very hard physically.
olgalli 1 year ago
@olgalli yeap, it must be very hard.
nnikolle 1 year ago
@lainconnu2010 yeah? watch me! :p from now on i will write only in french! :p Bonne soiree a vous.
nnikolle 1 year ago
@lainconnu2010 is ok, maybe in this way i learn much more french! :)))
nnikolle 1 year ago
@lainconnu2010 Hello Lainconnu! avec plaisir, mon ami! :))) i start to learn some french! :)))
nnikolle 1 year ago