A group of friends who became the most popular theater troupe in France. The Splendid recounts his life in a book for the first time, with unpublished photos and very personal texts. From their meeting at the Pasteur high school in Neuilly-sur-Seine (Hauts-de-Seine), their debut on stage at the Café de la gare, then the explosion at the cinema with Les Bronzés, Santa Claus is trash, Papy makes resistance. This book was in print at the time of Michel Blanc's sudden death. “The party is a little spoiled, we thought we would find ourselves thanks to this book,” confides Gérard Jugnot.
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“We received this as something of incredible injustice, of enormous brutality, because nothing could have predicted that this was going to happen,” adds Marie-Anne Chazel. Thierry Lhermitte read Michel Blanc's texts on the night of his death: “It was very moving. It's written with talent. As we didn't know what the others were writing, it's like a dialogue, like letters of love and friendship that we sent to each other.” Thierry Lhermitte remembers, after the death of his friend, “the sympathy that people showed, it was so warm”.
The Splendid troupe, “it’s a family”, summarizes Marie-Anne Chazel. How does Gérard Jugnot explain the timeless success of the Splendid films? “Perhaps immense talent, and great humility.” For Thierry Lhermitte, “we have never been fashionable, so we have not gone out of fashion.”
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