Before collaborating and singing together, Alain Souchon And Serge Gainsbourg first gave each other the answer. Indeed, in the autobiography of the first, Alain Souchon, Life is theater and memorieswhich will be published this Thursday, April 11 by Editions The Archipelagohe remembered the filming of the film I love you.
A feature film released in 1980 in which Claude Berri brought together Alain Souchon and Jane Birkin’s ex-companion, but also Catherine Deneuve. According to the interpreter of Hello mom bobothe understanding between the two singers on the film set would have been complicated.
“I annoyed him, probably because of the enthusiasm I aroused at the time. He played disillusioned, said to me: ‘So, how’s the business?’ I answered him: ‘It’s not business that I do, it’s art’. He laughed.”he explains in particular in his biography.
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Alain Souchon needed to “tease” Serge Gainsbourg to overcome his shyness
But this “bad understanding” would also have taken place when they were face to face. In reality, Alain Souchon recognizes that he was the originator of this relationship “complicated” on the set of the film I love you. Very shy, the 79-year-old singer needed to throw tackles at his counterpart to overcome his shyness.
“He was shy and so was I. To overcome my shyness, I pushed him around a little”he defended himself before giving some examples: “I was teasing him on purpose, slapping his thighs. He didn’t like it.” Despite this difficult relationship in 1980, this did not prevent the two artists from collaborating.
Moreover, Alain Souchon assures that Charlotte Gainsbourg’s father inspired her with great sympathy. He even describes him as someone “pathetic and touching”. “He was a refined man, but this role of Gainsbarre, a bit disgusting, like a regimental buddy, suited him”he concluded, admiring the person that Serge Gainsbourg was.