By Léa Noblet, Séries Passion, 1992
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By Léa Noblet, Séries Passion, 1992 |
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left, he came back. He made the opening, he will make the closing. Next 8 January, the
shooting of this legendary show will stop in Los Angeles. In nearly ten years,
Lionel Lockridge never wearied himself of this soap-opera. The adventurer
libertine, patriarch of the Lockridge clan, is the oldest character of the show
: "Santa Barbara is not a soap like the others : I remember
the episode where, pursued by a helicopter, I made a run with a horse. I have
even due to cross a fire of brushwoods. This is only in California that one
turns so similar scenes." One will find Nicolas Coster in other shows like Beverly
Hills 90210 , MacGyver , Police Squad or in
old episodes of Dallas.
Today,
the actor opens to us the gates of his house located on the hills from Hollywood
in Los Angeles. In this sumptuous residence, full of flowers and house plants,
he lives happy with his second wife, Elizabeth and their very young son, Ian,
fair with the blue eyes like his father. Their dog Mimi, indefinable but
adorable bastard, shares all games, every moment of tenderness. Nicolas Coster
is one of the founder members of the Cousteau Society, and he worked narrowly
with Jean-Michel Cousteau. He also directs underwater films.
The
sea, for this adventurous English, is a real passion, to which he will always
return. "I bought my first boat for
450 dollars in the Sixties, I spent 700 dollars to renovate it". He had
just sold his second boat (because his wife was going to have a baby) that one
proposed another one to him. He said no very firmly, but nevertheless he went to
see it in the port of San Diego, and he did not resist more than one minute.
Today, the West Star is part of the family. He equipped specially (with an
elevator, a flat bridge...) for an association with handicapped plungers that he
regularly helps to practise this sport. And when he is not at sea, he bestrides
his powerful Yamaha Xmax, "the fastest motor bike of the world",
affirms he with passion.
Does he regret not to play the Lockridge adventurer again ? Yes and no, because Nicolas Coster has more than an idea in his head... The show will have given him one of his best memories : to be invited in France, a country he adores and had been treated like Mick Jagger !
