Broadcast Tuesday July 2, 2024 at 9:25 p.m., the documentary Spice Girls – 30 years of rumors, secrets and scandals looks back on the group’s incredible journey. A journey which has not only earned them friends, since Béatrice Dalle had very harsh words towards them.
Their career only lasted a few years, but they left their mark on pop history forever. They are the Spice Girls, of course! From the group’s formation via casting in 1994 to their return to the stage in 2019 without Victoria Beckham, to Mel B’s flirtation with Geri Halliwell, the documentary Spice Girls – 30 Years of Rumors, Secrets and Scandals traces the career of the girls band. A phenomenal career made up of unforgettable hits (which we still sing by heart today), records and resounding achievements.
When the Spice Girls dynamite the Cannes Film Festival
More than a group, the Spice Girls were a phenomenon! All it took was one song, Wannabereleased in 1996, to instantly make Geri, Emma, Mel B, Mel C and Victoria stars. Adored around the world, the five girls conquered the planet with their music, of course, but also thanks to marketing that was as formidable as it was clever… Not to mention a universal message: Girl Power! A power that the Spice Girls claimed loud and clear and which they used to impose themselves everywhere, sometimes even where they were not expected. Thus, in 1997, they invited themselves to the Cannes Film Festival. And their presence did not please everyone, far from it!
“Beatrice Dalle shouted at them to be quiet“: Isabelle Adjani recounts a heated exchange between the actress and the Spice Girls
When they arrive on the Croisette, the Spice Girls don’t really blend into the background. They literally take the city hostage, the influx of fans forcing the municipality to block traffic in the city of Cannes. Unheard of for the Cannes Film Festival, which has nevertheless welcomed the biggest stars of the seventh art! Staying at the Martinez, the five friends have fun, party until three in the morning and their behavior does not fit in with the hushed tranquility of the palace. Their attitude irritates the actors and actresses who have come to attend the Cannes Film Festival, and in particular the actress Béatrice Dalle, who is not the type to let things happen or to keep quiet when something makes her angry. An epidermal reaction reported in the press by Isabelle Adjani, president of the jury that year, as the documentary recalls.They were making a hell of a racket. Beatrice Dalle, who I love, yelled at them to shut up and called them whores. It was funny.” she confided. The story does not say, however, how the Spice Girls took it…
