The actor who died at the beginning of October had time to contribute to a book published to mark the 50th anniversary of Splendid.
Michel Blanc, who died last month, had time to find his accomplices from Splendid for a final project. A book planned for the end of November where the members of the troupe all comment together on photos from their career. Rare photos, from their personal collections, warns the publisher Le Cherche Midi.
“There is a book that is going to come out, it’s very important, it’s the last thing he participated in,” Gérard Jugnot said this morning on Télématin. “It was Thierry (Lhermitte, Editor’s note) who organized this for the benefit of medical research, ironically…”
“We all took out our old, somewhat personal photos, each with (journalist) Jean-Pierre Lavoignat responded to these photos and it made a pretty wonderful book that I found beautiful,” he added. Titled The Splendid by the Splendid, we had so much funthis book is also being released for the 50th anniversary of the comedy troupe.
“We thought we would celebrate it with joy”
“In this book, everyone spoke and gave their point of view. I had already done that on my part, and here, everyone did it, Michel, among others. It’s quite touching”, Gérard Jugnot declared on RTL at the beginning of October. “We thought we would celebrate this little book with joy and unfortunately, that will not be the case. It will remain that.”
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Michel Blanc will be showing in two films next year. The firstThe Backpackeris a comedy by Philippe Mechelen (The Tuches), inspired by the famous guide. He will respond to Hakim Jemili, whom he has already worked with in Doctor?and to Christian Clavier, for the first time since Les Bronzés 3: Friends for life in 2006.
The actor will also be appearing in the drama in 2025 The Cachedirected by Swiss Lionel Baier. An adaptation of the novel by Christophe Boltanski, awarded the Prix Femina in 2015. The novelist, nephew of the visual artist Christian Boltanski and son of the sociologist Luc Boltanski, traces the history of his family.
