"It's a settling of scores, I take full responsibility for it": at the Théâtre Marigny, Éric Dupond-Moretti talks about his four years spent in Justice

His dachshund Jean-Claude is sleeping peacefully on the red sofa in his dressing room. Éric Dupond-Moretti has just lit a cigarette, probably not the last of the day, and is staring at us with his big blue eyes. " It's a settling of scores, I take full responsibility for that." We had just pointed out to the former Minister of Justice that J'ai dit oui, the show he has been performing at the Théâtre Marigny since February, looked more like a savate exercise than the last hurrah of a choirboy. The play directed by Philippe Lellouche , who has become a good friend, aims to reveal to us " the backstage of the role of Minister of Justice."

Every night when he goes on stage, he swears that he will " not do politics" . He goes back on his word every night for an hour and a half. And everyone gets a hard time: those in government who have not been very kind to him, the press - especially the left-wing press - and the magistrates, to whom he reserves long diatribes...

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