Andréa Ferréol, under the influence: "As a child, I admired Elizabeth Taylor because she kept getting married"

Interview by Sophie Delassein
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Interview At 78, the eternal actress of "La Grande Bouffe" continues to act while enjoying Provence and laughter.
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She appears zany, warm, joyful, spontaneous, and natural. Anyone who has seen Marco Ferreri's "La Grande Bouffe" can't forget Andréa Ferréol. Remember: in the early 1970s, the Italian director made a comedy about the pleasures of the flesh with Marcello Mastroianni, Ugo Tognazzi, Philippe Noiret, and Michel Piccoli. Just that. She, Andréa Ferréol, played a schoolteacher with little trepidation. In any case, her immense career cannot be summed up by this film, as cult as it is. Since then, the actress, born in 1947 in Aix-en-Provence, has not stopped. An insatiable worker, she is preparing for a scorching summer. At the end of June, she will be appearing at the Théâtre de Passy in Erwin Zirmi's "Amour, gloire et secrets." She'll be seen in the short program "Ehle" alongside Julie Depardieu, and she'll be hosting the 19th edition of the Flâneries d'Art contemporain (June 20, 21, and 22) in her region, a festival that brings together everything we love, namely gardens and works of art. Andréa Ferréol is the type to do everything at once, including when she's giving a telephone interview. Hello?
What makes you want to laugh?Andréa Ferréol Life. I have a great sense of humor and I laugh at many, many, many, many things. I laugh at everything. Yesterday, I had an X-ray of my hip and all I did was laugh. I'm doing rehabilitation, I play ball, I say I'm training for baseball. I ride my bike in rehabilitation, I say I'm training for the Tour de France. I laugh at everything.
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