Elisabeth Lemoine almost did not receive Pedro Almodovar in C à vous, Tuesday December 17 (24). The Spanish director was so shaken by the death of his favorite actress Marisa Paredes that he thought about not coming to the set, he admitted to the presenter.
Elisabeth Lemoine didn’t expect Pedro Almodovar to break down on her set!
However, the Spanish director, invited on France 5 to defend his new film, The Room Next Door, in the company of Julianne Moore, could not contain his emotion. The same day he learned of the death of Marisa Paredes, the cult Spanish actress with whom he made six films.
He first admitted to the presenter that he thought he wouldn’t have the courage to come on her set. “Today is a very sad day due to the disappearance of Marisa. And to tell the truth, I didn’t know if I was going to be able to do this show with you after learning this news,” he declared when he decided to pay tribute to him on the French channel.
But Pedro Almodovar failed to control himself. Troubled by the link with the film which is about to be released, he tried to explain his state of turmoil to the team of “C à vous”, also moved: “And to establish a link with my film, “The bedroom of ‘besides’, there is a part of me that cannot realize this death. Since I’ve been here, I’ve been trying to come to terms with the idea that Marisa is gone, that she’s no longer here, he says. For me, Marisa is eternal because she is in all the films she has been in – mine and all the others – where she has been wonderful. But for me, it’s a huge effort to realize this fact.”
“For me, it’s a bit like a bad dream. So I’m in a kind of nightmare,” he summarized, upset.
Marisa Paredes, who was 78 years old, was a star in Spain, but was well known to French audiences. His films “Stiletto heels”, “All about my mother” and “Parle avec elle” have been very successful and are regularly rebroadcast on television.
