The films of Louis de Funès have been looped on television for decades, here are several anecdotes that will allow his fans to know a little more about the character of the comic actor. Friday June 26, 2020, France 3 broadcast a documentary on the famous gendarme of St-Tropez and his son Olivier de Funès was the same day the guest of Valérie Expert on South Radio to discuss this news. Interviewed by columnist Gilles Ganzmann on the character of Louis de Funès, the actor's son did not try to lie, confirming that it was not easy.
"Once on set, he suddenly stopped playing," he remembered. And to continue: "Then the director says, "But what's going on?". He replied: 'Look, you will see!' " Was he missing food in his dressing room? Was a light misplaced? There was just someone he didn't know on set. "Who is the good woman at the bottom of the stage?" asked Louis de Funès. And let him answer: "She’s the machinist’s girlfriend." Then he retorts: "As long as it's there, I won't be shooting. Because we don't come to see the gu-gus on a set."
This little thing that Louis de Funès hated
As reported by his son on South Radio, the actor who played with Bourvil, Jean Lefebvre and Jacques Villeret hated that strangers arrive in the studios, believing that the private sector had nothing to do with work. "That he couldn't bear. You had no interest in stepping on a tray invited by someone because it is a workplace. It's still extremely precise, extremely difficult work ", agreed Olivier de Funès.
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