Clovis Cornillac was this Friday, January 17, guest of Anne-Élisabeth Lemoine in C to you on France 5. The actor spoke about his passion for a sport that he had to hide for years…
After the film’s box office A little something extra of Artus, which reached the milestone of 10 million admissions in 2024, Clovis Cornillac is back on stage. He will play alongside Laurence Arné from January 23 at the Théâtre de la Michodière in the play Mure Walla romantic comedy. When the duo of actors came to the set of C to you on France 5 this Friday, January 17, Anne-Élisabeth Lemoine went to completely different territory. “When you were younger, did you want to be a boxer?”she asked the 56-year-old actor. “I fought until I was 42, but not professionally“, replied Clovis Cornillac.
“I’ve never been a fighter, but…” : Clovis Cornillac opens up about his past as a boxer and MMA fighter
“In the street, when you meet someone, you say to yourself: ‘How long would it take me to knock him out?’“the host asked. “I had a bit of this reflex, [même si] I was never a fighter, but I sometimes got into trouble with some hot guys, without any pleasure. My real pleasure was to fight according to the rules.”specified Clovis Cornillac. “I ended up with MMA around 38 years old. Until 42 years old, I ended up with these sports that I really liked”he added. Before concluding: “The body was a little tired to recover, and then I wasn’t allowed to say it on the sets and all that.” Otherwise, “insurance, finished”added Anne-Élisabeth Lemoine.
-Clovis Cornillac – Sylvester Stallone, same fight?
In 2007, while Clovis Cornillac was preparing the role of Asterix, the journalist from Parisian Pierre Vavasseur presented it as “a Thai boxing madman dragged into the depths of clandestine free-fighting”. The enthusiast of Rocky was even “trained in the same room as the one who settled the fights of Rocky 2 et Rocky 3so we boxed in the same room, with Stallone”he confided in Telematin on France 2 in 2023. “We talked to each other, we exchanged ideas. It was very nice”he remembered.
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