In turn, Jean-Paul Rouve pays tribute to Michel Blanc. This Saturday, October 5 in the middle of the day, the show C the weekly revealed an extract from his number this evening. We see the actor Tuchemoved, salute the memory of his colleague who died on the night of Thursday October 3 to Friday October 4 at the age of 72.
“I want to call him now and tell him: ‘It seems that you are dead, what is happening?'”, begins Jean-Paul Rouve, his voice broken and his eyes red.
He then returns to their meeting, in 2014, when Michel Blanc played the main character of his film Memories. “I didn’t know him before (…) I offered him the lead role and he said yes straight away.”
“It went very well, we became friends, then friends. We talked on the phone a lot. He made me laugh a lot because he knew how to make fun of himself, he played it up a lot. His hypochondriac side, all that … When I called him I scheduled about an hour. He would digress, he would tell you about his life…”
“I laughed a lot with him,” he concludes, still moved. “He’s a great actor, a great director. And then it’s weird.”
Wave of emotion
Michel Blanc died on the night of Thursday October 3 to Friday October 4 as a result ofanaphylactic shockcaused by the administration of a contrast product – a substance which makes it possible to highlight the organs during a CT scan, an MRI or an ultrasound – during a medical examination.
The announcement of his death caused a wave of emotion, not only on the side of the 7th art – many artists, including the actors of the Splendid troupe of which he was a part, paid tribute to him – but also in political spheres: Emmanuel Macron, in particular, saluted an actor who “made us cry with laughter and moved to tears“.
Original article published on BFMTV.com
