HAS remarks by Michel Blanc and Tanned 3 friends for life, no one really asked themselves what they were going to do in this mess. Quite simply because the film, directed by Patrice Leconte on a script by (and with) the Splendid troupe, is not what one could call a flop.
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Released in 2006, the third opus of the saga of Tanned certainly did not have the freshness of Tanned and Tanned people go skiing and the press, never very kind, had panned the film upon its release. But it nonetheless had 10.355 million entries, i.e. on the 28the most viewed film in French box office history. Which is no straw!
Certainly, the tax problems of the group of friends now in their fifties – the film was shot 27 years after the first part – are less funny than their stories of sex in the sun or in the snow, but the audience is still there and it renews itself .
READ ALSO Christian Clavier: “With “Le Père Noël”, we pushed the limits” So, why did Michel Blanc, Mr. Jean-Claude Dusse in the saga, suddenly need to flagellate himself and take the failure of the film upon himself?
Lack of enthusiasm
“This failure is totally my fault,” he said, outright, in the pages of Paris Match. And the actor reveals the dilemma which had assailed him at the time when part of the team, disappointed at having to abandon the project led by Gérard Jugnot Asterix in Hispania due to the opposition of Albert Uderzo, wanted to continue working together and decided to follow up on Tanned. Michel Blanc was caught in the crossfire. On the one hand, he “didn’t want to make this film” and, on the other, there was no question “that they would do it without” him., he admits today.
Hence, according to him, a certain lack of enthusiasm on his part, sensitive to the screen. “I find myself absent,” he clarified. Already, on the set of the show C to you of February 27, 2023, the actor confided that this film was his worst.
Failures worth 10 million, I want more!Gérard Jugnot
However, if the old accomplices have experienced ups and downs in their relationships, they have never, at least publicly, incriminated one of their own in particular for the failure of a film. A troupe is an ensemble that rejoices in successes and accepts failures. But what failure? “10 million failures, I want more!” » jumped up Gérard Jugnot, as realistic as his character of Bernard Morin.
Thierry Lhermitte, more sentimental, indicated that “little [lui] does not matter the number of entries. And becoming a sociologist, he prefers to focus on the evolution of the characters: “It was great to see what our characters had become, to show that they were still as cowardly in the face of social poverty. A bit like everyone else, right? »
SOS screenwriters!
In any case, flop or not, Michel Blanc considers this Tanned 3 as a personal failure that forever made him angry with the saga. Which doesn’t mean angry with his friends, with whom he would still do a little something. “Doing things together, yes, but not The Bronzed “, he swears.
Marie-Anne Chazel undoubtedly has the best solution to get everyone to agree: “It would be great if someone wrote us a scenario that suited us. » Screenwriters, at your keyboards!
