At 86 and after having had a tragic stroke three years ago, Alain Delon has no intention of retiring. “I will be active before I die, because I intend to make one last film – and not just any film. And after that I can leave,” said the famous French actor in a rare television interview. granted to TV Monde.
Would this “last film” be the one he had been preparing with director Patrice Leconte for years? The project indeed began in October 2016. Both guests on the set of the show “8:30 p.m. on Sunday” opposite Laurent Delahousse, the actor and the director had mentioned a book written together. “JI still have a dream, is to make one last film with Patrice” had then declared Alain Delon. Surprised to learn this, Patrice Leconte took this statement to heart and decided to fulfill his friend’s wish at all costs. But six years after this announcement, the project seems far from complete.
For two years, the two friends began the process of making this “last film”. “We wrote a screenplay with Jérôme Tonnerre, with whom I wrote Maigret” explained Patrice Leconte. But the shooting of this feature film called “The Empty House” never took place.
Invited to the microphone of radio RFM, the director justified himself on this failure. Patrice Leconte notably felt that the actor, who had to be hospitalized several times in recent years for heart problems, would be too afraid to make this film. ” I think Delon, with all the friendship and admiration I have for him, the fact of announcing his last film, it’s a bit like he was going to shoot it and die afterwards,” he said.
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