Guest of Buzz TV of TV Magazine this Monday, June 24, Arielle Dombasle returned to her participation in An Indian in the city and explained why she almost never starred in this cult film.
At 71, she is full of projects! On May 24, Arielle Dombasle released his new album entitled Iconics. An opus in which she pays tribute to great female icons such as Marilyn Monroe, Shirley Bassey, Joséphine Baker and Marlene Dietrich. She was also chosen to welcome the Olympic Flame to Paris on July 14, twelve days before the start of the Olympic Games which will be held from July 26 to August 11. On the occasion of her news, Arielle Dombasle was this Monday June 24 the guest of the Buzz TV from TV Magazine. On the set of the show, the 71-year-old actress and singer revealed an astonishing anecdote about her participation in the film An Indian in the city.
Arielle Dombasle looks back on her participation in An Indian in the city
In 1994, Arielle Dombasle burst onto the screen for her role as Charlotte alongside Thierry Lhermitte and Patrick Timsit in An Indian in the city. A film that people still talk to her about, thirty years after its release, as she confided on the set of Buzz TV : “Often, a thousand generations combined, people talk to me about this film. It’s totally charming (…) It was a bit of the idea that we all adapt to the environment, to the situation, which is always new to us all”she expressed before returning to the cult character of Mimi-Siku played by Ludwig Briand, now 43 years old: “This little Indian who comes from very far away and who arrives almost naked with his arrows and who tries to conquer Paris, who climbs the Eiffel Tower, who eats the fish from the aquarium, totally cute!” A character who left a lasting impression!
Arielle Dombasle: why she didn’t want to play in An Indian in the city at the beginning ?
However, initially, Arielle Dombasle did not want to be in the casting of this film which has entered the pantheon of French cinema: “It was Thierry Lhermitte who insisted so much (…) I was perhaps in a period where I was making a lot of art house films. I worked with John Malkovichwith Raoul Ruiz, with Eric Rohmer…Very cutting-edge filmmakers. And so I said to myself: ‘But hey, a comedy…’ And then, afterwards, it gave me a taste for comedy.” she delivered.
