While the Caesar ceremony has more made about her for her political messages only for his record, many personalities have since been quite critical of the content of this event, which is supposed to celebrate cinema. Present on the stage ofOlympia on March 12, 2021 alongside the entire troop of splendid (Christian Clavier, Gérard Jugnot, Josiane Balasko, Marie-Anne Chazel and Michel Blanc), Thierry Lhermitte had for his part decided to relax the atmosphere by focusing on humor when receiving your award. Guest on the set of C to you March 15, 2021 on France 5, the actor took the opportunity to joking about the politicized speeches of Caesar quite funny.
Shortly before her intervention during the ceremony presented by Marina Foïs was rebroadcast on the air, Thierry Lhermitte indicated that he "regretted" what he had done that night. Anne-Elisabeth Lemoine therefore wanted to know why the actor had said that. "I regretted it because there were a lot of topics that were brought up, a lot of misfortunes in the world," he began in a very serious way, before falling into irony. "I regret that we did not address the Rohingyas, Yemen, Syria, the American elections with the invasion of the Capitol, endometriosis, not a word, animal welfare, hunting with hounds, nothing at all , Armenia, the stigmatization of anorexics in the world of Japanese Sumo, the grossophobia in the world of Jockeys, it's horrible, reimbursement of dental care, excision and Gafam, not a word about it ", he concluded, causing general hilarity.
Anne-Elisabeth Lemoine: "It was the 'rant' of Thierry Lhermitte"
Perfect timing for the actor, since he finished his long tirade just before the launch of the advertising pages. For his part, Anne-Elisabeth Lemoine indicated that "it was the 'rant' of Thierry Lhermitte," before specifying having "well understood what that meant between the lines.". Subsequently, in the second part of her show, the host received on her set the actors Nicolas Marié and Emilie Dequenne (who plays in The persuit, TF1 fiction on Michel Fourniret broadcast the same day). The actors respectively won the Caesar for Best Supporting Actor and Best Supporting Actress this year. The one who was unfortunately not present at the Olympia on March 12, 2021 to receive the precious statuette also expressed some reluctance in the face of the highly politicized interventions that took place during the Caesar 2021.
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