Camille Cottin very ill after her appearance on “Hot Ones”: “It was excruciating”

Invited on the set of “C à Vous” this Tuesday, December 17, Camille Cottin spoke about a particularly trying event that occurred in September 2023. At the time in full promotion for the comedy “Toni en Famille”, she spoke is measured against Kyan Khojandi’s hot sauces on his show “Hot Ones.” If the sequences of the episode are hilarious, the actress did not experience her rise on the Scoville ladder so well.

Facing Anne-Élisabeth Lemoine and alongside Pedro Almodovar and Julianne Moore (visiting Paris to promote “La Chambre d’à Côté”), Camille Cottin recounted this famous spicy episode. After filming the show, the actress was expected at a professional meeting. However, following the tasting of the “Gentille Myrtille” (1,700 on the Scoville scale), the “Katmandouce” (6,200) or the intractable “Mama Lava” (699,000), the stomach of the actress did not cooperate…

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“Afterwards, I was horribly ill. Crazy cramps… I was reading for a film by Emmanuel Mouret, with Grégoire Ludig. I stopped short and ended up sprawled on the tiles, undressed, moaning. […] This pain is truly excruciating. When you’re not used to it, it’s hellish.”

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Camille Cottin very comfortable facing Pedro Almodovar

Before this revelation on “Hot Ones”, Camille Cottin spoke for a few minutes with Pedro Almodovar. In the director’s native language, the actress spoke about the emotions she felt about the Spaniard’s latest film. Dealing with death and more particularly illness, “The Room Next Door” has particularly resonated with her since the recent death of her father.

Initially in Spanish to be understood by the filmmaker, Camille Cottin continued her confessions in French for the rest of the table: “There were several of us in her apartment, until the end. Deciding where to take someone for their last moments, sharing this precious time…”