Since the announcement of the death of Michel Blanc this Friday, October 4, a character has been on everyone’s minds. Jean-Claude Dusse, inveterate flirt of Tanned with a prominent mustache, delivered anecdotes and cult lines to French cinema and humor. However, the actor from the Splendid troupe sometimes had difficulty assuming this character which stuck to his skin. This Saturday, October 5, the 1 p.m. news on France 2 paid tribute to Michel Blanc by broadcasting old interviews. In an exchange from 1985, the actor already explains: “If continuing to play comedy means always playing the same thing with this sort of routine impression, that is to say always playing the same character, always the same situations, repeating what worked once, It doesn’t amuse me. I didn’t do this job for that. I did this job because I wanted to play things that weren’t quite me.”
For Michel Blanc, The Bronzed 3 was the film too many for the group of friends
In 2019, still for France 2, Michel Blanc said he dragged Jean-Claude Dusse “like a ball”. “Let’s say that for five or six years, Jean-Claude Dusse, he stopped me, he held me from behind. But now… actually if I’m here it’s thanks to him!”he admitted without problem. The actor still managed to turn his back on this eccentric and striking character. In 2006, he agreed to put on the costume again to The Bronzed 3before publicly disavowing it. He notably warned that if there were to be a fourth opus, there would not be one. “It’s over. This is just my opinion, be careful! That would be hitting the wall. First of all, I’m not crazy about three, so four is not possible. At our age, we would seem to be hanging on to the brancheshe said in 2023 at Figaro. Jean-Claude Dusse, the public has it at will, because the films are constantly on TV. I am no longer him physically, morally or artistically. But I’m happy to be called by his name in the street, it doesn’t bother me.”
The character of Jean-Claude Dusse is freely inspired by Michel Blanc himself
These are good The Bronzed that TF1 has chosen to broadcast this Sunday October 6 at 9:10 p.m., instead of Batmandeprogrammed. The opportunity to rediscover this first part of the saga and admire Jean-Claude Dusse from all angles. A character directly inspired by Michel Blanc’s adolescence. “It is inspired by personal experiences. All these moments, during adolescence, with this almost disgusting puberty”explained the actor in the documentary Les Bronzés, the secrets of 40 years of friendship and successin 2018.”In the booms, I spent long periods of time near the buffet trying to attract the attention of a girl and, generally, it was [Thierry] Lhermitte which attracted attention. I said to myself: ‘It pissed me off so much, I’m going to have a laugh with it now,'” he laughed about it then.
Article written in collaboration with 6Médias.
