One year after his death, director Emily Atef pays tribute to French actor and model Gaspard Ulliel, who passed away on January 19, 2022 after a skiing accident.
The director Emily Atef and the producer Xénia is jealous paid homage to the French actor Gaspard ulliel on the first anniversary of his death during the London screening of More Than Everthe last feature film the actor worked on before his death.
The drama sees Vicky Krieps as a woman who retreats to the Norwegian fjords as she contends with a dangerous respiratory illness. Gaspard Ulliel played her devoted husband who struggles to come to terms with her decision.
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“Today is a special screening. To be honest, I couldn’t have done this event in France today because Gaspard was so immensely loved in France“, these are the words of Emily Atef to the audience at the Lumière Cinema of the French Institute. “The French have a very special relationship with their actors that I’ve never seen anywhere else“, continued the director who stated that the French audience had a special bond with Gaspard Ulliel.
“French audiences have seen him grow, which is why it was a shock to disappear like that“, he continued. “It was an immense joy to meet him and to see him act in this film as partner of Vicky Krieps“.
Emily Atef, as reported by Deadlinethen said that the actor’s untimely death had no impact on the film’s plot or the final version, but changed “the way we presented it to the world“. The death of Ulliel “therefore it influenced how the film was screened and promoted and how it was seen or not seen“.
In remembering the actor, and paying homage to his work, the director focused on the way in which Gaspard Ulleil prepared for his role: “He was really a hard worker. We started preparing in 2019“, he said to then describe his screenplays “full of notes and thoughts“.
Gaspard Ulliel died on January 19, 2022 in a skiing accident on the slopes of La Rosière, in Savoie.
