a little thing What’s more, it continues to unite the public in the theaters. Artus’ film, with actors with disabilities, reached a new symbolic milestone on Monday: 3 million viewers.
Guest on the program c to youThe comedian was delighted with this success and recalled having suffered rejections during his search for a producer and distributor.
“It remains a disturbing issue,” he emphasizes. “It’s mainly the way we reject it, there are actually people who told me ‘we don’t want to see them, they scare me’.” I thought, ‘Okay, it’s 2024, we can still say that.'”
“The good thing,” he adds, “is that it is a small production, it is a small distributor, and I think that makes the story even more beautiful,” he added. “It’s just the little ones, and we’re in front Planet of the Apesin front of Dunein front of Barbiein front of oppenheimer“.
“No one wants to see people with disabilities on the big screen”
Artus’ film, released on May 1, had a historic start, bringing together 279,635 spectators in theaters on the first day, more than the second part of Dunereleased at the end of February.
Then word of mouth did its job and the film continues to attract many viewers in cinemas. After reaching 2 million before the end of the second week, something extra It’s at 3 million entries.
“People told me clearly that they were not going to spend money because ‘no one wants to see disabled people for an hour and a half on the big screen’. I hope this film helps prove them wrong,” he confided. he told BFMTV before the film’s premiere.
On Wednesday, the film crew will take to the steps of the Cannes Film Festival. “They will arrive like stars, it is the greatest gift we can give them,” declared Artus in Le Parisien on May 9.
Source: BFM TV
