Patrick Timsit almost discovered the “joys” of prison in the United States. If this had been the case, the actor could have stopped his career long before formalizing his decision. Indeed, in November 2021, the actor announced sad news from our colleagues from Nice morning. The one who notably played in An Indian in the city or soft pedalexpressed his wish to take a break in his career. “I have really good reasons to quit […] I have too much fear of the show, of being too old”he indicated.
But before this declaration, Patrick Timsit experienced a big scare which could have precipitated his choice as Philippe Labro said. Indeed, the writer and friend of the humorist confided in the columns of Sunday newspaper mentioning in particular an appeal to Francis Veber. The director telling him an anecdote when he was in the United States with the actor in a restaurant.
“Stop looking at me”
“There was a pretty girl at the other end of the room. We looked at her. She came towards us. ‘Stop looking at me’, she ordered us. I answer that I have a A ray of sunshine in her eyes and that I didn’t look at her. She goes to complain to the owner of the establishment. He comes to yell at us. The tone rises. He asks us to leave. We go out. And there, surprise: there are cops everywhere, explains the director to him, not thinking for a single second of what was going to happen next. Indeed, when they leave the restaurant, no less than five cars, fifteen police officers and a helicopter come to welcome them.
A most distressing welcoming committee which was nevertheless open to dialogue. “In my bad English, I then said to a cop who seemed a little less hostile: ‘I may have looked at this young woman, but 15 cops, 5 cars, 1 helicopter, don’t you think it’s a little too much?’ She smiled. She freed us. We were able to get on the plane and go back to France.”, told Françis Veber to Philippe Labro. A moment that Patrick Timsit has probably not yet forgotten…
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