Invited on the set of En aparté, Gérard Darmon returned to his beginnings with Jean-Pierre Bacri. Tears in his eyes, the actor was very moved to talk about his memories with his friend.
On the poster for the play A delicate situationGérard Darmon was a guest on the show As an aside broadcast on Canal + on March 31. Thus, the actor returned to his youth and to his beginnings with Jean-Pierre Bacri. Images of the two actors are then broadcast. The viewers and Gérard Darmon then attend a scene from the play The wrestlers, in which Jean-Pierre Bacri and himself are disguised in tutu. “We had to play in front of four or five people. We met Jean-Pierre the year before (…) It was a way of saying that we loved each other madly”describes the actor, with tears in his eyes.
In front of these images, Gérard Darmon cannot contain his emotion : “I was very surprised that there were images of this show”. But very quickly, the actor recovers: “So we’re not going to go into pathos. You know I hate being called about obituaries and being told, what do I think. Does Jean “Pierre Bacri was important in your life? Yes. Did you love him? Yes, I still love him and I think about it every day. Did you have difficult relationships? Yes too because we’ve been mad long enoughlike two fools that we were him and me”, he admits.
Gérard Darmon: “And we complemented each other, one made the other laugh”
Gérard Darmon then pays a vibrant tribute to his friend. “This man was a different man, easily accessible but at the same time complex. He had the intelligence disease, which was funny, intelligent, sensitive, he was fast and that suited us very well. And we complemented each other, one made the other laugh. A kind of twinship. In the end, I am very happy that you gave me the opportunity to talk about Jean-Pierre”he declares, his voice breaking with emotion.
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The viewers and Gérard Darmon then attend a scene from the play Les catcheuses, in which Jean-Pierre Bacri and himself are disguised in tutu.
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“We had to play in front of four or five people. We met Jean-Pierre the previous year (…) It was a way of saying that we loved each other madly”, describes the actor, tears in his eyes.
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Faced with these images, Gérard Darmon cannot contain his emotion: “I was very surprised that there were images of this show”.
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But very quickly, the actor recovers.
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“So we’re not going to go into pathos. You know I hate being called about obituaries and being told, what do I think. Does Jean – Pierre Bacri was important in your life?
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“Yes. Did you love him? Yes, I still love him and I think about him every day. Did you have a difficult relationship?”
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“Yes also because we stayed angry long enough, like two fools that we were him and me”, he admits.
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Gérard Darmon then pays a vibrant tribute to his friend.
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“This man was a different man, easily accessible but at the same time complex. He had the intelligence disease, which was funny, intelligent, sensitive, he was fast and that suited us very well.
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And we complemented each other, one made the other laugh. A kind of twinship. In the end, I am very happy that you gave me the opportunity to talk about Jean-Pierre”, he declares, his voice broken by emotion.