This is the film that filled cinemas in France. Released on May 1, “Un p’tit truc en plus” attracted an average of around a million spectators each week, quickly becoming the biggest success of 2024 ahead of the American blockbuster “Dune”. So much so that this Saturday, June 15, “A little thing in addition” exceeded the symbolic bar of 7 million tickets sold. “7 million thanks! Thank you, thank you, thank you for this crazy adventure! We aaaalove you!!!!“, wrote Artus on his Instagram account.
“It goes against everything I was told when I tried to finance the film”
A winning bet for the director and his film with a summary budget of 6.1 million euros, which does better than the most viewed French film of 2023, “Asterix and Obelix: The Middle Kingdom”, with its 4, 5 million tickets sold, for a much higher budget of $72.4 million. Invited on the set of “8:30 p.m. on Sunday” this Sunday June 16, 2024 on France 2, alongside part of his cast of actors and actresses with disabilities, the actor returned to this surprise card. “We don’t even know what to say anymore, it’s so crazy! It’s incredible to bring the French together, because it’s not easy, to bring them together on this theme.” he said to Laurent Delahousse.
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“What surprises me is that it goes precisely against everything that I was told when I tried to finance it, saying that it wouldn’t interest people, that they didn’t want to see these people with a little extra something on a big screen“, he reveals. “So there you have it, in fact it comforts me especially in the idea that I had. Yes, people want to see them“, he added. puremedias.com invites you to discover the sequence in the video above.
“I just wanted to make a film with people who, in my opinion, we didn’t see enough of. And a film together, not a film about disability, but a film where we all play together and where we forget our differences“, he continued a little later in the show, recalling that people with disabilities “represent 14% of French people“. A success which is reminiscent of that, as noted by Laurent Delahousse, of ‘Intouchables’ in 2011, the third most seen film of all time at the French box office with more than 19 million tickets. elapsed, or even “The Bélier family” with more than 7 million spectators at the end of 2014 and beginning of 2015.
“In any case, my way of treating disability is to try to trivialize it. It has to become commonplace so that we stop looking at it, precisely, as if it were not normal. That’s what I said in the sketch. Yes, we have the right to talk about disability because not talking about it is already putting it in a box and already making it a taboo subject.“, he concluded.
