In 1993, Valérie Lemercier
plays opposite Jean Reno and Christian Clavier in a French comedy that has become cult in the image of Dinner for idiots, Le Bouletor The big mop : Visitors. In this film by Jean-Marie Poiré, the 59-year-old actress plays Béatrice de Montmirail and has very good memories… or almost.
Indeed, during his passage in Nice gesture at Pierre Lescure, Valérie Lemercier admitted to having experienced complicated moments during filming. “It was a complicated shoot. Maybe I was tired, maybe I was feeling a little tired from having done a whole tour with a show”, she admitted to the journalist. A complicated filming partly of its “different status” compared to Jean Reno and Christian Clavier. Until now, Valérie Lemercier had not yet “nothing done” And “was a little surprise”she admitted.
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However, it was indeed the remarks of the director, Jean-Marie Poiré, which hurt her the most. “Jean-Marie wasn’t happy. He came to see me in the evening to say: ‘you’re not funny’. Christian’s makeup artist (Clavier) said when she saw Marie-Anne Chazelle arrive: ‘Finally a funny woman! ‘”she remembered, still hurt by these remarks.
These subsequently greatly disturbed her: “I kind of had a panic. I was like, ‘I’m not giving them what they want. I’m not funny enough'”. Despite this complicated situation, the 59-year-old actress assured that she was “very happy to be in this film”especially since we “keep calling him Jacquouille in the street” and it is not to displease him.
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