Death of Robert Hossein: the tender confidences of Gérard Darmon on the last months of the actor

Shocking secrets… Wednesday, January 19, 2022 will be released in theaters the film Love is better than life, directed by Claude Lelouch. In full promotion of the latter, the famous director went on the set of C à vous in the company of Elsa Zylberstein, Gérard Darmon and Sandrine Bonnaire. One star of the film, however, was missing: Robert Hossein, died the day after his 93rd birthday, on December 31, 2020 following a respiratory problem. Moved, watching a scene from the film, where he replies to the late actor, Gérard Darmon confided: “This sentence: ‘I forbid you to leave before me’, he pierced me when he did that. It was very moving. I was very proud to work with this man who was still there. He wanted, there was still in his eyes… His eyes were clear, fresh, lively. And here’s what… Shot his last shot in a graveyard, really, it came full circle.“

During his career, Robert Hossein had acted in five films directed by Claude Lelouch. A few weeks ago, in an interview given to Provence that the director confided: “We didn’t know he was going to leave. He shot three weeks before he died. He came from Vittel, he was in great shape for a 92-year-old man. It was the first day of filming. I found the lawyer of the Ones and the others. This scene was very moving.“

Claude Lelouch evokes “an anthology scene”

When the death of his friend was announced, Claude Lelouch had declared a year earlier: “I had the chance to make him make his last film. He was awesome there. He shot a legendary scene with Gérard Darmon and I would have liked him to see it before leaving (…) I am very, very happy to have been the last to film it. I hope that this sequence that he shot will allow him to be eternal. Thanks to the cinema, it will be eternal. It’s the luck of the artists.”

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