This Thursday, May 8, Patrice Leconte was invited to the set of C to you. Questioned by Anne-Élisabeth Lemoine on his relationship with Michel Blanc, the director of Tanned remembered a sentence that he marked it a lot.
last October, a sad news in the all of France: Michel Blanc, a legendary actor of French cinema, died at the age of 72 after an anaphylactic shock to a drug. The artist had started his career in the 1970s alongside the Splendid troupe. Surrounded by Gérard Jugnot, Thierry Lhermitte, Christian Clavier, Marie-Anne Chazel and Josiane Balasko, Michel Blanc knew a meteoric rise in the middle of the seventh art by embodying the inimitable Jean-Claude Dusse, in the three parts of Tanned. At the head of this saga that has become cult: Patrice Leconte. The director was also invited on the set of C to youthis Thursday, May 8, in order to promote the release of his sixth novel, The temptation of the lake. The filmmaker returned to his friendship with Michel Blanc and reveals a sentence that marked him a lot.
“It was he who was very mysterious “: Patrice Leconte reveals the words of Michel Blanc who touched him
Questioned by Anne-Élisabeth Lemoine about his friendship with Michel Blanc, Patrice Leconte remembered a lot of emotion of the late actor: “It was very curious, Michel, because we made a lot of films together, with the splendid and without the splendid, but we never saw ourselves outside the shooting“, he begins. The director remembers a sentence from Michel Blanc who marked him a lot: “We were very close and, one day, in an interview I read, Michel said: ‘Patrice, it’s quite curious, we worked a lot together, but he is very mysterious, I don’t know him well’. While I feel like I am on one level with the whole world. I have the impression that it was he who was very mysterious, like a kind of chilly tomcat, who had a kind of prudence in doing things and giving himself. When he said: ‘Patrice, he is very mysterious’it saw me “, he explains on the set of France 5.
“It’s very complicated “: Christian Clavier turned upside down by discovering the last film in which Michel Blanc appears
A few weeks ago, the last film in which Michel Blanc appeared released indoors. The actor of Small victories also found his acolyte forever, Christian Clavier, on the set of Backpacker. It is with a particular emotion that the actor of Visitors discovered the final version of Philippe Mechelen’s feature film, six months after the death of his friend. At the microphone of RTL, Christian Clavier said: “It’s a bit complicated for me to see the film. I saw it once, I’m not going to see it five times in a row. It’s very personal. It’s very complicated to talk about this because Michel’s disappearance is a terrible thing for us “.
