in video, Monica Bellucci and Alex Lutz look back on their torrid kiss during the 70th Cannes Film Festival

Monica Bellucci was on the set of C to youlast November 25 on France 5. Currently showing in the new France 2 series, This is Paris, in which she lends her features to a revue leader, the Italian actress was accompanied by actor Alex Lutz, who plays a cabaret owner.

“Let yourself go”

The opportunity for the duo to return to images which caused a lot of ink to flow in 2017. Indeed, while she hosted the opening ceremony of the 70^e Cannes festival, the one who has since become Tim Burton's companion launches into a dance with Alex Lutz on think of metaken from the film Stiletto Heels by Pedro Almodóvar. Very quickly, she shows herself to be dominant and ends up grabbing her partner by the hair to kiss him. The latter tries to free himself from this painful hold, but the actress, now 60 years old, orders him to let go, before giving him a kiss as fiery as it is languorous.

A voluntary role reversal

“I was contacted to meet her, to work on the texts, to stage things. We had talked about possibly resuming the principle of the Hollywood kiss with the woman who twists her neck, reversing the roles,” explained Alex Lutz on the set of France 5. And confiding: “You are in the work, you are not you don't realize (of the impact of such a sequence, Editor's note).» The next day, it was Monica Bellucci who called him, frantic. “What did we do?”, she allegedly asked him. And for good reason, their hot kiss made the front page of all the international press. It has since been engraved in the annals of the Cannes festival. And remains “a beautiful memory” for Alex Lutz.