Guest of Buzz TV This Tuesday, May 6, Josée Dayan spoke of his collaboration with Christophe Dechavanne for an episode of Captain Marleau. She did not chew her words about the host.
Captain Marleau Driven at each of its broadcasts on France 2. On Friday, May 9, the channel is programming a new episode of the series which features the famous gendarme with the chapka embodied by Corinne Masiero. At her credits, we find in particular Emilie Dequenne, the actress who died on March 16, 2025 following a rare tumor. “I wanted to work with Émilie because she is a very, very beautiful actress, very talented. I had a very beautiful character who could correspond to her and the shooting fell right when she was in remission and when she wanted to work. This synchronicity enchanted me, and she too, I think”, testified the director about this collaboration in the columns of Parisian. They had also stayed in touch after the shooting. “”I loved him very much. (…) She had said to me: ‘I fight. She has always been extremely courageous. It’s really a beautiful person. We heard so much of course that we wanted to do something else together … “, regretted the director.
Josée Dayan finds that Christophe Dechavanne is “A little complicated”
Josée Dayan was the guest of Buzz TVthis Tuesday, May 6, to discuss the broadcast of this new episode of Captain Marleau. She was invited to deliver her opinion on several of the personalities she directed in the series. When talking about Christophe Dechavanne, who had camped a gendarme in an episode with Laura Smet, the director did not chew her words. “I met him curiously one day. I was on a terrace in a cafe. I was chatting with my cast. And he gets out of this coffee, he arrives at my height, he crosses the street, turned the street, comes to me and tells me ‘Hello, Christophe Dechavanne, I would really like to turn with you. You know, I have already turned. I made a film ‘. And I look at him and I tell myself ‘He has something interesting, why not’. And I offered him a role of a Marleau assistant in a Marleau that I did in Biarritz with Laura Smet “, Did she summarize about their meeting. If she seemed satisfied with this collaboration, she did not praise the host. “I’m not going to spend my weekends with him. I will spend my weekends with Fanny Ardant absolutely, with Gérard [Depardieu] Also, with Isabelle [Adjani] Also, with Corinne [Masiero] Also. But with Christophe Dechavanne, ah no! Because he’s not an actor. I only like actors “, she concluded, relentless. “He’s a bit paranoid too. He’s a bit complicated”she added. She also does not plan to turn with him again.
Christophe Dechavanne had mentioned his heated exchanges with Josée Dayan during the shooting of Captain Marleau
Christophe Dechavanne had confided in the columns of Télé-Loisirs On his sometimes stormy collaboration with Josée Dayan. “She is authoritarian and sometimes speaks dryly but it is her character. When we understood her operation … Well, it is true that, the first days, it can destabilize a ‘little young’ like me. She yell at me at certain times and, to others, she was adorable”, had he noticed.
