Michel Blanc died during the night from Thursday to Friday. Since this announcement, tributes and anecdotes have resurfaced, such as that of the complicated filming of this cult sequence of Tanned people go skiing.
Since the death of Michel Blanc on Friday October 4, 2024, following anaphylactic shock leading to heart failure, tributes have multiplied. The actor leaves behind orphaned fans. Among the most emblematic characters played by Michel Blanc, Jean-Claude Dusse resurfaces in everyone’s mind. This stereotype of the insecure flirt first appeared in The Bronzed by Patrice Leconte in 1978 (rebroadcast this Sunday October 6 on TF1), before returning to service in the sequel released in cinemas the following year, Tanned people go skiing. However, one of the comic scenes in this feature film left a bitter taste in Michel Blanc.
The chairlift scene in Tanned people go skiing, an icy memory for Michel Blanc
In one of the scenes filmed in Val-d’Isère, Jean-Claude Dusse (Michel Blanc), who came with his group of friends on vacation, takes a chairlift. The chairlift driver finishes his day and stops the ski lifts. Jean-Claude Dusse finds himself stranded without anyone coming to his aid. The man wrapped in his ski suit then thinks of a technical problem in this scene: “I hope it won’t last long, I’ll be late.” But it takes time and night falls. He begins to sing When will I see you again, wonderful country before dropping into the snow. Many years later, Michel Blanc declared that he had very bad memories of this scene which exhausted him.
“I was hit by the icy wind in the face“, the ordeal of Michel Blanc stuck on the chairlift
In a documentary dedicated to The Splendid, the actor described this rather painful scene from his point of view: “It was cold, it was minus 15, I was hit by the icy wind in the face.” This scene had to be shot several times in order to maintain the best take. Each time, the actor was obliged to completely redo the route, which lasted a quarter of an hour from the bottom of the track to the top .
Article written in collaboration with 6médias.
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