Nicolas Bedos tackled by Mélanie Laurent: this sentence heavy with meaning that changed his life: Femme Actuelle Le MAG

Nicolas Bedos can boast of a great career. From the height of his 41 years, the star is at the origin of many creations – theatrical, cinematographic or even literary. A success that he obviously owes to his talent, but also to some of his encounters. This is what he confides in an interview with Madame Figaro and published Thursday, March 18, 2021, on the occasion of his last film, OSS 117, Red alert in black Africa, in theaters soon. Among these people who turned his life upside down, there is Mélanie Laurent.

Nicolas Bedos, who lost his father on May 28, 2020 to a long illness, went through painful periods in his life. Between his 20s and 30s, he suffered a depression that "(stuck in bed" for months, report our colleagues. "I was only good at eating meds", remembers the director of The good times. While the'"ex-seducer" self-proclaimed person spent his nights partying, his father him "(cut) the food". As for Mélanie Laurent, she shocked him. "I owe my greatest theatrical success to Mélanie Laurent. Who came to fetch me in a deplorable state in a trendy nightclub, and said: 'I'm ashamed that I loved a guy so much who turned into this' ", tells the playwright.

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Following this, Nicolas Bedos opened his eyes, and wrote the play Health walk, which he staged in 2010 at the Théâtre de la Pépinière, in the 2nd arrondissement of Paris. In 2011, on the occasion of the 64th Cannes Film Festival where she officiated as mistress of ceremonies, Mélanie Laurent asked Nicolas Bedos to write his speeches. And for good reason : "Gilles Jacob (ex-president of the Cannes Film Festival, editor's note) put pressure on me by advising me to use an intelligent, funny and light tone. I immediately thought of Nicolas Bedos. He's one of the people who knows me best ", confided the actress, quoted by Point, during a press conference organized by Canal +.

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