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"I needed this singularity for my character, who was a man who came out of nowhere, during the war, like an apparition. Gaspard had this side of a creature from elsewhere. He had this physical beauty, certainly, but he also had something fantastic, very enigmatic. He didn't have the smooth beauty of a transparent model, he had something disturbing, strange, opaque... which we feel well, moreover, in his incarnation of Yves Saint-Laurent ("Saint Laurent" by Bertrand Bonello in 2004). By managing to be both corporeal and dreamy, he was fascinating."
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Isabelle Huppert, actress
First of all, he was a marvellous actor, with whom it was very pleasant to work, quite simply. And then he was a very good person. I made two films with Gaspard, he played my son in A Dam Against the Pacific, which we shot in Cambodia, and then we made Eva with Benoit Jacquot. Gaspard had a mystery about him, but it didn't consist in taking him away from people, it rather engaged us to deepen and nourish the relationship we had with him. He was quite wonderful, with a certain gravity, not often light-hearted. I didn't know him well enough to know what was behind it, but this gravity gave him an intelligence of situations. He was a truly magnificent actor, he would have continued to be so - it's unreal to talk about him like that. He had a perfect command of situations, and his work, that's why I'm very shocked, and very sad, he didn't deserve this.
Léa Seydoux, actress
I'm shocked, it seems unreal, we were supposed to shoot together next April. We'd already filmed together twice, in Bonello's Saint Laurent and Dolan's Just the End of the World. I was delighted to see him again. Gaspard's disappearance is the loss of a national treasure, he gave off a crazy light. He was a very approachable actor, which may sound weird to say, and I don't want to say anything bad about actors, but it's not that common. He had a gentle]ness and a constant consideration,..[There was more, but for subscribers only.]
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Gaspard in the night." It is with these words, on the front page, that Libération paid tribute to Gaspard Ulliel, the double award-winning actor who died suddenly on Wednesday after a skiing accident. The daily newspaper, which devotes four pages to the unforgettable actor of Just the End of the World and Saint Laurent, chose a sober black and white photo, in the image of this enigmatic and discreet man.
The actresses Isabelle Huppert, Léa Seydoux, Marina Foïs and Anaïs Demoustier salute in the pages of Libération the "hallucinating aura" of Gaspard Ulliel. "It's a good thing that we're going to be able to see him again," said Léa Seydoux, who has worked with Gaspard on two occasions and was due to meet him again in April for a new film.
"Gaspard Ulliel's "tragic end" is also on the front page of Le Figaro. The daily also highlights the secrecy of a "discreet, even mysterious" actor, who was "popular without being a film star". "He will be sorely missed in the seventh art," the paper said.
Le Parisien bids farewell to "the child prodigy of French cinema", "who embodied beauty and talent", and La Provence to the "shooting star" of the 7th Art. Le Dauphiné opted for a more sensationalist treatment and headlined "the terrible accident", with a montage superimposing a photo of the actor on a shot of the scene of his accident..
