The comedian of La Nouvelle Vague Jean-Pierre Léaud is currently going through “a difficult time on the moral, physical and material level”, according to the Leetchi kitty which was opened to help him.

As revealed by Le Parisien, the 79-year-old star would be “in a state of distress and moral loneliness, of psychic disarray” so that his friend Serge Toubiana, president of Unifrance, former director of the Cinémathèque and biographer of Truffaut, decided to open this kitty, which today has no less than 10,575 euros out of the 15,000 euros requested.

“We created the Friends of François Truffaut in 1988, his favorite actor, Jean-Pierre Léaud, despite his sadness, responded present and encouraged our initiative”, can we read in description of this initiative. “Today, despite an exceptional career, Jean-Pierre is going through a difficult time morally, physically and materially (…) The funds he will collect will be entirely donated to Jean-Pierre and Brigitte to meet medical needs. , rest and probably administrative and life support”.

Serge Toubiana would have received “alarming” messages from the actor on his return from the Cannes Film Festival, explain our colleagues from Parisian. “It was a cry for help. I went to see him at his house and it was very difficult to cheer him up. He did not get up anymore”, he explained and to affirm that he was touching a “poor” retirement. The death of director Jean-Luc Godard, with whom he worked, was also a blow for Jean-Pierre Léaud. “He was in tears on the phone. They even had a late project together which Godard had to give up. These personalities were like guardians for him”.

The actor, who was revealed by François Truffaut, had made himself known thanks to his role of Antoine Doinel, the turbulent hero of the film Les Quatre Cents Coups.