“I will not go on vacation with him”: Josée Dayan without concession on Christophe Dechavanne

Josee Day is the guest of the “Buzz TV” this Tuesday, May 6. The director still makes the heyday of the PAF with her productions. One of them, Captain Marleauresumes this Friday, May 9 on the France 2 antenna with an episode entitled The seventh dance which features Émilie Dequenne, who died on March 16 of rare cancer. This is his last role on the screen.

“Émilie Dequenne, I met her at the Angers Festival a few years ago. We were in the jury and we had sympathizedsays Josée Dayan. Before filming The seventh dancethere was a Marleau that I made which was broadcast and in which there was a young Belgian actress, Déborah François. She was friends with Déborah François and therefore she looked at this Marleau. She came out of a very violent year and a half of chemo and she was in remission. She called her agent, Danielle Gain, and she said to him: “I saw Marleau because I wanted to see my girlfriend and I would really like to make a Marleau” “she explains.

A suitable shoot for Émilie DEQUENNE

The screenwriter highlighted the arrangements made so that Émilie Dequenne, just out of chemotherapy, evolves in an optimal setting. “I wanted to adapt and she not at all. At the same time, without necessarily telling him, I brought filming which I hoped to be a little less violent ”she reveals. On the set, the actress was surrounded by her close family. Her husband Michel Ferracci played in the TV movie. “When I called Émilie and we decided to lunch together to talk about the shooting, she came with Michel (Ferracci, NDLR) Since it is her husband and I told myself that it would be good for her which resumed a shoot after a year and a half of interruption of having a little more personal affect around her than my benevolent presence. And so I proposed a role to Michel ”she recalls.

That’s not all, Emilie Dequenne’s daughter was also part of the team of Captain Marleau. “She told me about her daughter who is 20 years old and who made makeup courses. I proposed that she is also on the set like that, she was with her mother and there was a more serene climate ”she adds.

“It is a bit paranoid, it is a bit complicated. »»

Josée Dayan about Christophe Dechavanne

Josée Dayan finally shared her opinion on the personalities she directed as a director and in particular Christophe Dechavanne. Indeed, the animator had given the reply to Corinne Masiero in the episode Dead season in September 2024. “He met him, I was on a coffee terrace, avenue Rapp. And I was discussing my casting, […] He comes to me and he said to me: “I would like to turn”. I look at him and I tell myself he has something interesting. I offered him a role of assistant to Marleau in a Marleau in Biarritz », Remember our guest before launching: “I’m not going to spend my weekends with him. I will spend my weekends with Fanny Ardant, with Gérard (Depardieu, editor’s note) Also, with Isabelle (Adjani, editor’s note) also with Corinne (Masiero, Ndlr) Also. He is not an actor and I only like the actors. It is a bit paranoid, it is a bit complicated ”.