VIDEO – Guest of “C à vous” on France 5, the actor and director admitted to Anne-Élisabeth Lemoine that he had difficulty accepting the death of his friend, which occurred at the beginning of October.
The interview started in a good mood but turned emotional. Friday evening, Jean-Paul Rouve was the guest of Anne-Élisabeth Lemoine in “C à vous” on France 5 to promote The Valley of Foolsa film by Xavier Beauvois in which he plays opposite Pierre Richard. After discussing this new first role, the actor was questioned by the host about the recent death of Michel Blanc.
The latter had directed Jean-Paul Rouve several times. He had also played his brother-in-law in Les Tuches 4. Since then, the two men had become friends. In 2019, Michel Blanc declared at the microphone of Europe 1: “I don’t have many close friends with whom I have a bond like with Jean-Paul in this profession. There are the goons from Splendid and there is Jean-Paul Rouve”.
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In December 2021, with Isabelle Nanty, they came to promote comedy on the talk show. At the mere mention of it and the sight of his face, Jean-Paul Rouve was touched. “It’s weird because when you started talking about it, there was this photo that appeared… I can’t get used to it actually. I feel like he’s invited. It seems so weird to me. When he left, they played the memories, I couldn’t watch them on TV, that’s not possible. There are people like that, it’s weird”he declared while petting his dog sitting on his lap.
That day, Michel Blanc admitted that he had dreamed for a long time of landing a role in The Tuches. However, he had never expressed it openly to Jean-Paul Rouve. “He was very modest. Although we saw each other a lot, he would never have dared”concluded the actor and director.
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At the beginning of October, the day after the announcement of the death of Michel Blanc, Jean-Paul Rouve agreed to go to the set of “C l’hebdo” to pay him a vibrant tribute. “He’s my friend. I want to call him, tell him: “What’s going on? It seems that you are dead”»he admitted before adding: “He was a great actor, a great director and a great dialogue writer. We talked on the phone a lot. He made me laugh a lot. He knew how to make fun of himself a lot. He played a lot of his hypochondriac side. When I called him, I planned an hour because he would talk to you about something, he would digress and tell you about his life, what he had eaten the day before and why he had not digested it well..
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