A comedian and host well known to the French, Jarry was, in 2021, the star of the film By your sidea comedy-drama in which he pays tribute to his father. By drawing inspiration from his personal story?
Although he is a comedian, Jarry does not hesitate to pull on the heartstrings for a poignant tribute to his father. In 2021, was broadcast for the first time on TF1 By your sidea TV film by Gilles Paquet-Brenner in which the former host of Everyone Wants to Take His Place plays Anthony. Although angry with his father, Marcel, he asks him to come back and live with him when he learns that he is doomed to cancer. In secret, he will therefore ask this son, far from being like him, unlike his two other sons, to support him and help him in his illness. A dramatic comedy in which we find Didier Bourdon in the role of the father, but also Marie-Anne Chazel and Terence Telle.
Broadcast again this Monday, December 16 on TF1, By your side is actually a tribute to Jarry's father, who himself died of cancer several years ago. However, if this TV film depicts in a certain way the relationship that the host had with his father, several liberties were taken in the scenario, in particular to accentuate the gap which has widened over the years between Anthony and his brothers . In reality, Jarry has always been close to his siblings, made up of four children and not three as in fiction. “With my brothers, we were very different but they protected me a lot when people made fun of me because, when I was little, I was very shy”had confided the host. And to add that their father's illness had even “even closer”.
Where was the film By Your Side filmed?
Among the small changes that have been made, we include the father's profession. While Marcel is a wine grower, as Jarry's mother and brothers really became, his real father was a founder. In addition, his name was Raymond, the first name Marcel having been borrowed from his own father. However, it's not all just fiction. Indeed, À tonside was filmed in Rablay-sur-Layon, the village where Jarry grew up, near Angers. And the rapprochement that developed between the actor and his father during the last months of his life clearly reflects what we observe on the screen if we are to believe the comedian's confidences.
“My father asked me to accompany him because we were less close. My brothers were very close to him, and he told me that it was going to cost them too much”had thus confided Jarry, who nuanced: “It's not that there wasn't love between him and I, but there was no display of affection at all, we didn't talk to each other.” And to conclude: “I also think he asked me because he knew we were going to get closer through the illness.”
