From this Wednesday, November 13, Kad Merad will be starring in Claude Lelouch's new production, of which he remembered their improbable meeting in the columns of Paris Match.
Only four months after the release of the crazy comedy The MinionKad Merad marks his return to cinema in a completely different register. Julia Vignali's husband had the honor of playing in Claude Lelouch's new production, entitled Eventually. Scheduled for Wednesday, November 13, the feature film tells the story of Lino, a brilliant lawyer whose life is turned upside down when he suffers a stroke. No longer able to lie following his health problem, he decides to leave everything behind and embark on a road trip that will take him to the four corners of France. This trip will allow him to meet new people who will make him understand that “ultimately” everything that happens to us is for our good. This musical fable is the first film that the 60-year-old actor shot with Claude Lelouch, whom he met through Valérie Perrin.
Kad Merad: his meeting with Valérie Perrin finally allowed him to film with Claude Lelouch
As Kad Merad explains in the pages of Paris Matchit was his dream to one day shoot with Claude Lelouch who collaborated with prestigious names in French cinema throughout his career, with the exception of this actor. “I was getting on a train to return from Burgundy to Paris when I happened to see Valérie Perrin, Claude's wife, arriving in the same carriage.. She almost missed that train! We had met before, but we didn't really know each other. I'll greet her, we'll talk. I, who am rather shy in life, ended up confiding to him what I would never have dared to say to Claude, that I would dream of filming with him one day“remembered the one who grew up with the director's films.
Claude Lelouch explains why the meeting between his wife and Kad Merad had a major impact on his new film
Claude Lelouch, for his part, revealed that the chance meeting between his wife and Kad Merad led him to choose the latter for his new film. “At that time, I was casting 'Eventually'. I see all the actors in the Place de Paris, without finding my Lino, which rarely happens to me. Valérie calls me and tells me about her meeting. And there, the click is immediate”, he first said. Before adding: “It was obvious, Kad was the one I was looking for. He ticks all the boxes. Because it's a very complex role. We needed a musician, a man who goes out of his way to be attractive, who can to be as light as it is dark, even disturbing at times. All this happened very quickly. A month later, we started filming.
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