Qhen they decide to work together, Annabel Karouby returns from a long professional decade in the United States and Michel Blanc has just directed Walk in the shadewhich was a hit, to his great astonishment. “When I arrived at Artmedia, I had two important clients: Claude Chabrol and Michel Blanc. »
The famous casting director Margot Capelier calls Annabel and sends her a funny scenario: Evening wearwritten by Bertrand Blier. By warning her of an incongruity: the role in which Michel Blanc was expected had been offered to Bernard Giraudeau. The latter refused. Blier did not modify a line of the script by imagining White in his place!
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“It was weird, I thought they were crazy, you couldn’t have two more opposite physiques. I laughed a lot while reading the script. I sent it to Michel, I told him that he would be shocked, but that it was worth it. At the time, no one refused a Blier,” explains Annabel Karouby. When the comic actor from the Splendid troupe discovers the dialogues, the plot, he becomes worried.
A couple adrift, he and Miou-Miou, reside in a dilapidated house where they welcome Bob, the colossus Gérard Depardieu. The latter settles in, encourages them to carry out burglaries before forcing an affair with Michel Blanc. The two men end up in transvestites and all become prostitutes. “He kept telling me: More […] Read more
