The actor was the guest of “C à vous” on France 5. He talked about his current affairs but also the duo he forms every evening on M6 with Amélie Étasse.
This Monday, November 11, Grégoire Bonnet was invited to “C à vous” on France 5. The actor, accompanied by Michèle Laroque, came to present the play The next door in which he plays with the actress on the stages of the Saint-Georges theater. The duo will perform there until December 31 before embarking on a tour throughout France.
In addition to the play, Grégoire Bonnet also spoke about his career in front of the columnists of the France 5 program. Patrick Cohen thus underlined that, the one who had studied at Cours Florent (with Pierre-François Martin Laval and Jean-Paul Rouvre ), took a while to shift into comedy. We recently saw him in The meaning of the party. “It was Jean-Pierre Bacri, who had seen me on stage with Isabelle Gélinas, who was kind enough to tell Toledano and Nakache “Look at this guy, he might be good for this role”»he confided.
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Patrick Cohen then highlighted the fact that Grégoire Bonnet had been in the M6 series for ten years Household scenes in which he plays the pharmacist Philippe, in love with Camille played by Amélie Étasse. “You are a couple who didn't immediately win over viewers, is that true? »asked the columnist. “Oh no, it takes time. We were hated at the beginning! Couples, when we arrive on “Household scenes”it takes time “, he clarified.
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“They hated you because they didn’t know you?», added Anne-Élisabeth Lemoine. “ That's yes, and then because everything that is new is a little… We were hated for a year, two years, three years, four years…continued the actor with humor. No, no, now it's better. »
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Anne-Élisabeth Lemoine then spoke about the Order of Pharmacists which was angry with the actor for the image he gave of the profession. A point on which Grégoire Bonnet had already explained a few days earlier on the microphone of Thomas Isles in the show Media Culture on Europe 1.
« When I arrived on M6, I was offered this role of pharmacist (…) We started to build this character, and I said that I wanted to have all the flaws… A guy who loves money, big cars , who is a bit of a “nouveau riche”… (…)he explained. I wasn't giving an image of pharmacists… whom I really like… There are some in the provinces who are suffering and it's not easy for them. But there are some pharmacists who are happy in their lives. »
He then said that the channel had made his character less caricatured. « I understand that M6 asked production to calm things down with the authors”he concluded.