Philippe Lacheau, actor, screenwriter and director of Alibi.com 2, currently showing, refused an astonishing project, which could have been a turning point in his career. We tell you more!
Philippe Lacheau refused an unexpected film project! A biopic on TV host Jean-Luc Delarue is currently in preparation.
Asked about the fact that we had never seen Philippe Lacheau in a dramatic role before, the latter replied: “I have been offered to play dramatic roles, like that of Jean-Luc Delarue for a biopic in preparationhe explains in the columns of the JDD. I was surprised that people thought of me. I hesitated a lot. I wondered if it was time to do something radically different, which speaks of decadence, drugs, darkness behind the public image of ideal son-in-law. The answer is no.”
bestimage Jean-Luc Delarue in 1988 at the Cannes Film Festival
No Philippe Lacheau therefore in the skin of Jean-Luc Delarue, but this project is very probably in the process of casting. We do not yet know if it is a film or a TV film, like for example what TF1 had imagined around Grégory Lemarchal recently.
On this occasion, AlloCiné had also listed several biopic projects with potential for TV personalities, and Jean-Luc Delarue was one of them.
Here is what we wrote: “Sex, drugs and tragedy. The biopic about one of the most talented animators-producers of his generation, Jean-Luc Delarue, would not be the brightest as the man behind Ca se discuss a dark side that ended up taking up all the space and killing him. In 2018, producer Vincent Meslet (Tomorrow belongs to us) dedicated a book to him entitled The Man Who Didn’t Love Himself Who Could Perfectly serve as the basis for this TV movie. It would also be a question, through his exceptional professional career, of telling the not always brilliant behind the scenes of television in the 90s and 2000s”.
Since we published these lines in 2020, several TV documentaries have traced the journey of Jean-Luc Delarue on the occasion of the 10th anniversary of his death in 2022.