“Immense pain”. The Splendid troupe, Michel Blanc’s stage and screen companions, spoke on Friday October 4 about the actor’s death. In a brief press release, Josiane Balasko, Marie-Anne Chazel, Christian Clavier, Gérard Jugnot, Thierry Lhermitte and Brunot Moynot thank “warmly” the many people sharing “testimonies of support and friendship” after the actor’s disappearance. “Fuck Michel… What did you do to us…”wrote his colleague Gérard Jugnot on the night of Thursday to Friday on Instagram. Follow our live stream.
A shower of tributes to Michel Blanc. A little earlier, Emmanuel Macron saluted the memory of a “monument of French cinema”. “He made us cry with laughter and moved us to tears”added the President of the Republic on the social network “We all have a little bit of Michel Blanc in us”also reacted Prime Minister Michel Barnier.
Victim of cardiac arrest. The actor and director, who saw himself as a “angsty clown”suffered a heart attack on Thursday evening and was transported to a Parisian hospital where he died, his entourage explained to AFP, confirming information from Paris Match.
Eternal Jean-Claude Dusse. In January 2023, Michel Blanc looked back on his major roles, and in particular on the cult character of Tanned : “There were times when I felt like I was a prisoner of Jean-Claude Dusse. So that bothered me because I wanted to play other things“, confided the actor to franceinfo.