Eddy Mitchell lives up to his reputation. The rocker is silent. He sends each response concisely, like a cowboy in the westerns he loves so much. In theaters from Wednesdaya little miracleHe logically assumes the role of a taciturn man with short, incisive answers.
Like many recent comedies – Retirement house, chorus of rockers, etc. – a little miracle honor seniors and nursing homes. In this feel-good comedy, inspired by a true story, elementary school students are forced to attend classes in a retirement home after the destruction of their school.
Eddy Mitchell returns to share the bill with Alice Pol after two parts of old stoves (2019, 2022) and a murder party (2022). Like the old singer just wanted to go on tour with her. “It’s a coincidence,” he comments. “She’s great. We get along well. She’s a good actress. She knows her lines down to the letter.”
“The tours, I’m fed up”
But it wasn’t her presence that drew him a little miracle, presented last week at the end of the Alpe d’Huez festival. “The character is depressed at first and decides to go into an EHPAD. Once there, he only has one wish: to get out. The guy’s turnaround is great.”
He gives the answer to a series of child actors. Working with such young partners has its drawbacks. “He’s kind of boring, because he talks all the time. He gives his dialogue when he shouldn’t. But it doesn’t matter. They’re just kids.”
And at 80, Eddy Mitchell prefers that to concerts. Freed of his obligations as a tour producer, that he “has to make sure the drummer hasn’t broken his arm”, he devoted himself fully to movies. “He is resting. He is fine. To the movies, we come looking for you. You know your text, you say it and then goodbye.”
“The tours, I’m fed up,” he continues. “I don’t want to travel anymore. The plane, the train, the car, meeting in the afternoon at two in the morning at the hotel where they offer me a gourmet salad… that’s over, that. ” No gourmet salad in the cinema: “In the cinema the schedules are better. They are different”.
Without regrets
The roles, on the other hand, are no different. They even look a bit alike. Pick up the characters of grumpy old men or grumpy grandparents. “Because I know how to do it right, I guess,” she smiles. “He also comes with age. But he’s not shy. He goes with my physique.”
Forty years ago he was offered more complex roles, such as the perfidious Nono in wipe down by Bertrand Tavernier. Being in the background doesn’t matter to him. “If the role interests me, I do it.” Therefore, he rejects many proposals. “If I don’t believe the story, I can’t go.”
With the cinema he seeks above all to “have fun” and “make credible” his character. There are roles that she could not play and he rejects them: “They offered me a homosexual who does the Bois de Boulogne. I couldn’t.” He doesn’t regret the roles he didn’t get. “They didn’t need me. It doesn’t matter.”
“Too Talkative”
Your next few months are full. In June she will appear in Wow! by Bruno Podalydes. “C’est bien, parce que c’est cinglé. Le scénario, il fallait y penser. C’est un couple qui décide de vendre sa maison. When the agency arrives, ils la foutent dehors: ils ne veulent plus vendre . Not bad.”
He rarely has proposals of this caliber: “It’s strange, because it’s not very French. French cinema is not very crazy.” murder partya pastiche of a police novel of piqueit was, even if Eddy Mitchell found the result “too chatty.”
He has two other film projects. And if the 7th Art bores you, you can always turn to the 9th. Big fan of comics, he would like to write the script for a record. Following a collaboration with cartoonist Ralph Meyer (undertaker), hopes to work with Michel Blanc-Dumont, co-author of Blueberry Youth.
Source: BFM TV
