Sergi Lopez: "People still talk to me about 'Harry, a friend who means well' twenty-five years later"
Interview For thirty years, he's been taking his good-natured plumpness and Catalan accent to the four winds of cinema. In the hallucinatory road trip "Sirāt," an allegory of our world on the brink of chaos, the actor is deeply moving as a lost father in the Atlas Desert. He looks back on his memorable roles.
Interview by Nicolas Schaller
Sergi Lopez in Cannes, May 16, 2025. FANNY DE GOUVILLE/MODDS
• “Western”, by Manuel Poirier (1997): The film thanks to which the profession, the press and the public (1.1 million admissions) discovered the actor as a handsome Catalan crisscrossing the roads of Brittany alongside a small-time Russian thief (Sacha Bourdo).
“I live in Paris, having just arrived from Catalonia, and I join the Jacques Lecoq International Theatre School. One day, a small ad is posted: “ Looking for an actor with a Spanish accent for a first feature film.” I’ve never been to a casting, I go out of curiosity. The director M…
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