Gérard Lanvin salutes the memory of Michel Blanc in Midi Libre, just like Michel Drucker. The tributes are multiplying.
Josiane Balasko, Marie-Anne Chazel, Christian Clavier, Gérard Jugnot, Thierry Lhermitte and Bruno Moynot chose to react on Friday “with one and only voice”expressing “their immense pain following the death of their friend and companion” Michel Blanc.
“Thank you for respecting our silence and meditation.”writes the Splendid troupe in its press release.
“Fuck, Michel… What did you do to us?” had just released Gérard Jugnot at the microphone of RTL, while he was the guest of the morning show, evoking in a few words the circumstances of his death: “I think he had a huge allergy to a medication. I know they tried to resuscitate him. But he’s gone.”
Gérard Jugnot: “He suffered a little from the first Bronzés”
Left first, as always. How quickly he had emancipated himself from the merry group, trying, in vain, to leave behind his persona of a loser feeling bad about himself.
“Michel wanted to say “I” before everyone else, Gérard Jugnot told us recently. He suffered a little from the first Bronzés because this character of Jean-Claude Dusse was not very rewarding. He also wanted to make more “respectable” films.”
At the height of this “terrific actor” who aroused the unfeigned admiration of his comrades at Splendid each time his name came up in conversation.
“A tormented, very endearing man”, describes Michel Drucker in Midi Libre
“He was an exceptional actor and a great director,” reacted on Friday, Michel Drucker, contacted by “Midi Libre. “It would be too simplistic to summarize his career with his character in Les Bronzés sont du ski”he believes. The host had been around Michel Blanc and his accomplices for many years and not only on his famous red sofa. “I was on the set of Bronzés 3 in Sardinia with the entire Splendid team. It’s one of my best memories.” he confides. Michel Blanc “was a tormented man, very endearing”.
“You remain in my Pantheon of beautiful, happy adventures”
Gérard Lanvin has never forgotten Michel Blanc’s first steps as a director in Walk in the shadenor this duo which caused sparks and panicked the box office in 1984.
On Friday, the actor paid tribute to him with these words that he sent to us by SMS. “Your desire was to surprise, but there, my partner, you hit hard…”writes Gérad Lanvin.
“Rest in peace, my friend. You remain in my Pantheon of beautiful, happy adventures”he adds.
Macron: “A monument”
“I knew I wanted to be an actor thanks to this kind of encounter”says Pierre Niney on X. His kindness and talent impressed me so much during my first film shoot. I was 18, I played his son.”.
“What I’m going to missexplains Patrice Leconte, director of the Bronzés trilogy. C‘is him, what he was.’
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That’s to say “a great actor”depicts the director Jean-Marie Poiré. A “multiple face of our cinema”, adds the Académie des César.
Lined with a “attentive companion”adds the singer Lio, who had traveled a long way with him.
“All his life he played men who did not love each other”, underlines the Elysée
But also, in the collective imagination, a “skier who has proven that you should never give up, in love or on a chairlift…”laugh the ESF ski instructors in a final wink.
“The pain is immense, commensurate with his talent”underlines the Minister of Culture, Rachida Dati.
Emmanuel and Brigitte Macron salute the memory of a “French monument”, “which managed to make life more human, more funny, more sensitive”.
“If he played men who did not love each other all his life, Michel Blanc could count on the love of the public for fifty years”underlines the Élysée.
