2024-10-04 08:18:49
He who had made so many people laugh. The actor Michel Blanc, the inimitable Jean-Claude Dusse of “Bronzés”, died Thursday evening in hospital. “Damn, Michel, what have you done to us”, the actor Gérard Jugnot, his partner from the “Splendid” troupe, reacted during the night in a “story” on Instagram. “It’s a hard blow,” he later declared into the microphone RTL. «He was the French Woody Allen, he had an absolutely brilliant sense of dialogue», added those who said they «met him in the fourth grade during a German lesson». “And we let go more. »
“Michel my friend, my brother, my companion,” actress Josiane Balasko, also a member of “Splendid,” also greeted on Instagram. “Michel, what bad news, rest in peace my friend,” he wrote for his part Instagram the actor Gérard Lanvin, who starred with him in “Marche à l’ombre” in 1984.
With a trembling voice, the director of Les Bronzés Patrice Leconte does not hide his emotion. “I can’t imagine it not being there anymore,” he told RTL. “There is a sort of misunderstanding, I see everything we have managed to do together,” he declared, introducing Michel Blanc as a “friend”. “What I will miss most is his presence. When someone disappears, especially when it’s sudden, we are shocked. I say to myself: How is it possible that Michel Blanc is no longer here? I can’t believe it. Luckily, the movies will live on. »
“The pain is immense”
The Minister of Culture Rachida Dati, for her part, paid tribute to an actor who “will have amazed us with the variety of his acting, but also with his skills as a director. “Cinema, the world of culture and all French people will not forget him,” he added, calling his pain “immense.”
“He is a man full of kindness, tenderness, simplicity, very lively intelligence and clarity about the world we live in,” Jack Lang, François Mitterrand’s former culture minister, told BFMTV. “He didn’t take himself seriously (…) he loved beautiful things. I think that millions of people in France share this feeling of almost injustice. How could such a young man be brutally beaten, stripped of his life when he still has so much to give? “, he said.
“It had the quality of being tragically funny,” praised actor and director Jean-Michel Ribes on BFMTV’s microphone. “He had extraordinary playing colours, a second degree, great emotion,” he added, saying he was “very upset”.
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