Hilarious and touching The stupid dinner“on the moon” in Cabbage soup, and endearing father of a chimpanzee in Mookie…Jacques Villeret put on several hats throughout his life before leaving us on January 28, 2005. Between two roles in the cinema, the actor, whose crook almost got his hands on his inheritance, answered, like all personalities, questions from journalists. He also happened to cross paths with a certain Hugues Delatte.
If this name means nothing to you, maybe that of Raphael Mezrahi will tell you a bit more. It is, however, the same person. In effect, “Hugues Delatte” is none other than the character he played during his fake interviews carried out in the 1990s. A failed young journalist totally overwhelmed by the exercise. From Nicoletta to the legendary interview with Jean-Pierre Castaldi, or from Nabilla to Guy Marchand, Raphael Mezrahi succeeded in bringing many personalities out of their hinges.
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Jacques Villeret invites himself to Raphaël Mezrahi, without warning
Moreover, he would have liked to succeed in jostling Jacques Villeret. But it was the actor who died in 2005 who took over during the interview… in spite of himself. Guest on the show It’s gonna be a fuss on RTLlike Natasha St-Pier before him, the 59-year-old comedian told a lunar anecdote about this moment. “I started with Patrick Sébastien and I showed him some interviews I had done, and he said to me: ‘It’s absolute genius, do what you want, I’ll give you 4 million francs. Go ahead, you have to do 150!'”he first remembered before continuing: “We do 4 interviews a day, and we say to ourselves that we are going to interview Jacques Villeret, André Pousse, Nicoletta, etc…”
“So me, I always prepare a little interviews, I’m waiting for André Pousse”continues Raphaël Mezrahi, who learns on the day of the interview that he “went through the week” : “I open the door and there, it’s Jacques Villeret”. totally lost, “Hugues Delatte” n / A “nothing prepared”. Indeed, even if these are fake interviews, he explains that he is preparing “a structure anyway” : “I prepare something, and I say to myself: ‘What am I going to be able to tell Jacques Villeret?’ And that’s why I don’t tell him anything”.
Complete black hole according to him. Raphaël Mezrahi reveals that the interview took place, but “there is nothing happening”. “I erase my notebook for an hour and a quarter”he reveals, before the host Jean-Michel Zecca asks him: “And Villeret said nothing?”. “No, he whistles… And at the end I tell him: “Well, there you go… thank you”, and nothing happens”he concludes, making the guests of the radio show laugh.
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