He has more strings to his bow than Robin Hood and Legolas (Lord of the Rings) together. From Edouard Baer, we know the formidable actor, with his twisting lines as in Asterix: Cleopatra mission. We admire the word-wielder, with the moving stories in his radio show Lights in the night sure France Inter. The general public now has the opportunity to discover the novelist, author of The rantings of a man suddenly struck by grace, taken from his play of the same name, in which he paid homage to his masters of literature. And among the men who inspired him and who marked out his career, appears at the top of the list Jean Rochefort, who died in October 2017. The two men met at the end of the 90s when Edouard Baer was trying to break through as a comedian on Canal + while his elder brother made the heyday of French cinema. Throughout their collaborations rich in epic moments, a friendship was formed between these two storytellers until the dandy's death.
He did not erase the number of Jean Rochefort
But the story between these two troublemakers, not stingy with good words, has never ended. There is still a link that brings them together, a place where Jean Rochefort did not completely pass away with Édouard Baer: the phone book. The Arles lover refuses to erase the number of his spiritual father, as he recalled at the microphone of Michel Denisot, Saturday February 13 on Europe 1. "It's something we said about Patrick Modiano, the writer. We must continue to call people who are dead. They should not be removed from your address book. They should not be scratched or erased ", he claimed, before setting off in one of his character-defining tirades: “The landline was louder for that because when you ring a landline, you know your phone call physically exists. There's a room somewhere where there's a ringing ringing. And sometimes, we say to ourselves 'Well, if I called Jean Rochefort, on a misunderstanding, he could pick up.' " Jean Rochefort no longer responds but his voice still finds an echo in us thanks to Édouard Baer.
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