Guest of the Happy Sunday show On RTL, Marie-Anne Chazel, one of the icons of the Splendid troupe, revealed her enormous lie concerning The Bronzés go skiing.
We hardly need any introduction anymore. Marie-Anne Chazelwho after his studies formed a theatre group, Le Splendid, with his classmates including Thierry Lhermitte, Michel Blanc, Josiane Balasko, Christian Clavier and Bruno Moynot. After their first success in the theatre with the play Love, shells and crustaceansthey continue at the cinema with The Bronzed in 1978 then The Bronzés go skiing in 1979, two cult French comedies even giving rise to a third episode, inevitably less successful, in 2006, Les Bronzés 3: Friends for Life.
Marie-Anne Chazel, the timeless Gigi in The Bronzés go skiing, without mincing words in front of Bruno Guillon
Marie-Anne Chazelrecently returned to the Splendid film reviews, is this weekend the guest of the show The Good Sunday Show presented every week on RTL by Bruno Guillon. In an excerpt from the issue of this Sunday, September 8, 2024, put online in preview, the actress makes revelations about the feature film The tanned ones go skiingdirected by Patrice Leconte. As a reminder, in the plot, the friends from the first opus meet at the Val-d’Isère sports resort where Robert Lespinasse known as “Popeye” (Thierry Lhermitte), Gigi and Jérôme (Christian Clavier) work. The latter, who works in a medical practice, is also married to Gigi (Marie-Anne Chazel) who runs a crêperie.
The big lie revealed by Marie-Anne Chazal about her skiing skills
In the film, Gigi also shows herself to be jealous of the women gravitating around her husband, which gives rise to some comical scenes. On RTL, the biting actress, sunglasses screwed on her nose, tells Bruno Guillon that she lied about her skiing skills: “I pretended that I was skiing, which was totally false in The Bronzés go skiing. I told them I skied. Absolutely not, I had to take lessons before, I sprained my ankle. Josie and I were two nuts [Josiane Balasko, ndlr] in the ski scenes, because getting us to move on the snow was problematic“. Then, she admits with relaxation and humor: “Yes, I have lied all my life. It is a profession of lying. The goal is to lie truthfully. It is that we believe that in the end, your lie is true.“.
Article written in collaboration with 6médias.
