Laurent Ruquier indulges himself on Michel Drucker’s red sofa. The host was invited to evoke the memory of the singer Marie Laforêt five years almost to the day after the singer’s death. The bandleader of “Grosses têtes” had persuaded the artist to return to the stage, thirty years after singing his last songs. One of the two largest “professional pride” in the career, however rich, of the host, as he confided to Michel Drucker in “Vivement Dimanche”, this November 3. Moved when seeing images of the interpreter of “Tenderness” again, he spoke of his bond of trust with the one who rarely granted it.
“Every day, I think of Marie”
“It wasn’t easy every day to be Marie Laforêt’s friend, because she’s a woman like you don’t meet many”smiled Laurent Ruquier straight away, when rewinding his meeting with the “girl with the golden eyes”. “Even today, she is the one I miss the most. Every day, I think of Marie. There is only one person left who can make me cry, it’s her“, he admitted, unable to explain the reason for this sensitivity. The two friends had met for the first time in “Nothing to wax”, that Laurent Ruquier presented in the early 1990s on France Inter. Years later, when there was talk of replacing the convalescent Isabelle Mergault at short notice in “La presse est unanime”, the producer of this successful play immediately thought of the multi-talented actress. “That’s what made us friends for twenty years”recalls the purveyor of stars.
A strong head that he had tamed
“I called her even though we didn’t really know each other at the time”remembered Laurent Ruquier, surprised by the positive response from Isabelle Mergault’s deputy. “For you, I do it”she replied, too happy to find her cinema companion, Jean-Paul Belmondo, at the Théâtre des varieties. “She was never absent”he added. Puremédias invites you to watch the sequence.
