It is your best known role. His interpretation of Jean Claude Dusse, in Bronzes skiHe made him one of the French favorite actors. But this role, inspired by Hypocondriacs unhappy characters in love of Woody Allen, attached to his skin all his life.
Patrice Leconte, the director of this cult comedy with the splendid company, says in our podcast Comedy Club Your Filming Memories Tanned skiing. Patrice Leconte knew Michel Blanc well, with whom he made eight films in thirty years, of which Come home, live with a girlfriend in 1981 and Mr. Hire In 1989.
Michel Blanc had, says the filmmaker, a common point with Jean-Claude Dusse: unlike her comrades in the splendid, hated skiing! “He was quite shy. He didn’t like skiing. He was not interested in that.
“In addition, I don’t even know, but now we can ask more, unfortunately, since then Bronzes skiSometimes I returned to the mountains for the pleasure of skiing. In my opinion, never. “And to add:” Michel was an inhabitant of the city. Going to the field, next to the sea, skiing, did not tempted it. “
Cheerful atmosphere
If the writing of Tanned skiing It is collective, Michel Blanc inspired by his own experience to imagine the character of Jean-Claude Dusse. “He brought small dialogues, things, cookie cutters. Everyone has put their small salt grain to take possession of the characters.”
The shooting, in Val D’isère (Savoie), takes place in an extremely cheerful atmosphere. “The group was very, very close. At night, we were in the same bar to drink Gin Tonic.
“Despite the cold, there was a real pleasure of one end of the shooting, a real joy to make this movie. And Michel was not the last to laugh. He laughed a lot and there were things a bit on the edge of the laughs,” continues the director, who “bit the interior of the blood cheeks” not to laugh on his faces.
A “A little research” scene
The only black point of this shooting: the famous sequence of the trolesilla, which had to be turned at night. Now Michel Blanc hated shooting the night. “It was a bit a small research scene for him to turn because he was in a teller, at night, and it was cold,” summarizes Patrice Leconte.
“There was no doubt that he descended or bringing him back to the place we had planned. So he was suspended there enough time. They had still given a rope to be able to drink a hot drink so as not to freeze it. We did not keep it in this chair for a whole night,”
At first it was not When will I see you again, wonderful country? What should Michel Blanc sing? Another song was planned during filming, Snow starA famous German waltz that became a tube in France in the 1950s with Jacques Hélian and then in Renaud line.
“Once back to Paris, when we have learned that the rights to use Snow star They were astronomical. So, with (the composer) Pierre Bachelet, we had fun doing something that sticks. These are the same rhymes, the same melody, but vice versa! I’m sure there are people who think they are singing Snow star. “
“In the shooting, we found that I was blowing”
The troop runs whenever the first assembly lasts 2 hours. Half an hour of jirs, now missing, is cut in postproduction. “If we cut scenes, it is because it was not famous,” said Patrice Leconte. “They were less fun than others and preferred to maintain the best.”
“I have memories of scenes that we film with Thierry Lhermitte in the cable car’s cabin. Gigi’s dog has in his arms and the dog begins to ask and everyone thinks that it is Thierry Lhermitte who throws a fart. But he was not walking at all, it was not fun. In the shooting, we discovered that it is hindered …
Ski bronzes Throwed in November 1979. In cinemas, success was there. But with 1.5 million admissions, it is less than 2.8 million in the first part. Then, given millions of times on television, thanks to dozens of repetitions, the film has become a cult. And many know the replicas of memory.
Especially those of Dusse. “Listen to Bernard, I agree that you and I, we have a small problem. That is to say that we cannot really bet on our physique, especially you. So if I can give you advice, it is: forget that you have no possibility, that! We do not know, in a spoiled, it can work!”
Self -colombal
With retrospective, the character of Jean-Claude Dusse seems to be the most popular in Tanned. Without a doubt, thanks to the interpretation of Auto -Mockería de Michel Blanc. “As a character, it is undoubtedly the one that remains more than the others,” agrees Patrice Leconte. “But in terms of notoriety of the actors, they are all the same.”
The popularity of the film has long been a curse for Michel Blanc. “I often explain that until FatigueAll the movies I made, including ShadeThey are films of certain type that blocked access to authors’ films, “he said in an interview in 2023 for this podcast.
“The author’s films, I succeeded before Jean-Claude Dusse was born,” he said. “For example, in Claude Miller’s movie, The best way to walkI had a role that was still important. (I also made) I made two films with Tavernier (That the party begins …, spoiled children), another with Polanski (The tenant). “
A very popular actor
Inseparable of the character of Jean-Claude Dusse, it was impossible to use it in a serious role, at the risk of “breaking a little” the author’s films that would have needed his action talents, he still advanced. “I did not have to return to the cinema known as the author as the interpretation price in Cannes, with Night outfit. “
“People, even my butcher! – said ‘It’s an actor!’ That is what made me laugh a lot.
But despite Michel Blanc’s efforts to change the record, State exercise to WitnessesJean-Claude Dusse continued his life. During their funeral, dozens of people disguise themselves as jeans-clarum Dusse. One of them even sang in the Saint-Eustache church When will I see you again, wonderful country?.
“It moved me a lot because, suddenly, I visualized how the popular actor was a very popular actor. This crowd around Saint-Eustache moved, because these people, being there, showed him that they had loved her a lot,” said Patrice Leconte.
Source: BFM TV
