In 2012, Gad Elmaleh starred opposite Sophie Marceau in the film Happiness Never Comes Alone. This feature film directed by James Hunt tells the story of Sacha, a young man who earns his living by putting music to commercials and, in the evening, playing in a jazz club. Allergic to children, he lives without attachment and without thinking about tomorrow. Charlotte, for her part, runs the art foundation financed by the advertising agency of one of her exes. She is raising her three kids from two different fathers. One day, Sacha and Charlotte meet and their daily life changes completely…
Guest on the set of the show “It’s yours” on France 5 this Monday March 11, 2024, Gad Elmaleh returned to the filming and in particular to the famous “bledard syndrome”. “As a child, I saw ‘La Boum’ like everyone else, she’s not going to be happy that we only remember that and that we only see her through that but there you go, I was crazy about Sophie Marceau! She was my lover! When 30 years later I was asked to make a film with her, I made this joke to the producer, I said to him: ‘I don’t know her, where she is in our history , but I’m all in!’. he said.
The 52-year-old actor then explained how he and Sophie Marceau were not on the same wavelength during filming: “I was very seduced of course, she is an icon, she is an exceptional woman, she is a great actress. But the bledard syndrome, where it comes in, is because you could say that after a lot of films that I have made, you could think that I am used to notoriety and that I am going to be a professional but in the end I was thrilled to film with her! I completely broke down and she didn’t at all, she was just doing her job so there were two films being shot…“.
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