The actor made the greatest impact… Thursday October 3, 2024, at 10:45 p.m., Michel Blanc died at the age of 72. Although he was in good health, the emblematic actor of the Splendid troupe suffered an anaphylactic shock at the beginning of the afternoon, and later succumbed to his 6th cardiac arrest. Throughout his career, he had played with numerous actors such as the other members of the Splendid troupe, but also Gérard Lanvin, Miou-Miou, Gérard Depardieu, Sandrine Bonnaire and Carole Bouquet.
Ten years after his cinema debut, Michel Blanc played opposite Mathilda May in Nemo by Arnaud Sélignac, in 1984. Forty years after their first meeting, the actress has wonderful memories of the star. In an interview with Télé Star, on newsstands Monday October 28, 2024, she however revealed that she was consumed by remorse.
Mathilda May: “I was lucky to find it on my way”
“When I met him, I was 18 years old, I was new to this industry and I started alongside him in Nemo. We became very close, to the point that he written for me Walk in the shade. I couldn't do it because I was on an American shoot.”indicated the 59-year-old actress before slipping: “I regret it today, but I know I was lucky to find him on my way”.
Released in 1984, Marche à l'ombre was a success and achieved 6.1 million admissions when it was released in cinemas. It was also nominated for the César for best first film. If Mathilda May was not free to star in this film in which Michel Blanc opposite Sophie Duez, she was directed by Michel Blanc in 1994 in Grosse Fatigue in which she plays her own role.
Mathilda May: “It’s part of my story…”
Thursday October 10, 2024, like many personalities, Mathilda May attended the funeral of Michel Blanc, at the Saint-Eustache church, in the 1st arrondissement of Paris. At the end of the ceremony, it was at the microphone of BFMTV that the actress remembered a man “affectionate, faithful, bright, sensitive“.
In shock, the one who is currently in the series Le Daron, broadcast on TF1, added: “He is part of my story… Without him, I don't know if I would have coped so well with being a young girl projected like that, overnight, into the world of cinema“.
