the funny anecdote of his grandson Victor

This is called making a successful exit. On September 6, Jean-Paul Belmondo passed away at the age of 88. This Tuesday, October 26, his grandson Victor was invited on the set of the show “C à Vous” on France 5. The opportunity for him to share anecdotes about his adored grandfather, one of which took place at day after the national tribute to the Invalides.

A funny moment on which the host Anne-Élisabeth Lemoine wanted to know more. “His coffin got stuck in an elevator the day after the solemn tribute and you said ‘Hey grandpa, you keep playing jokes on us'”. A mishap that made the entire Belmondo clan laugh at this painful moment. “I think he didn’t want to leave without making us laugh and he made us laugh until the last moment”, said the 27-year-old. A stuck coffin and a waiting family. “It’s crazy, we were at home and we were waiting for the funeral directors and they weren’t coming. We saw them arrive sweaty, really sweaty twenty minutes late, telling us that they had to go out. through the elevator hatch. They had to do a stunt to get the coffin “, explains Paul’s son, adding that the interpreter of “Borsalino” certainly wanted “Delay the deadline”.

The king of waterfalls

With this mishap, we see that Jean-Paul Belmondo will have retained his stuntman soul to the end. Because yes, the actor always did his own stunts in the movies. And even outside the movie sets, he loved to test drive them. Journalist Pierre Lescure questioned Victor Belmondo on this subject: “One day he got on the roof of the car. He asked your daddy to drive off and you drove off with your grandpa on the roof of the car. It’s true ?”. An anecdote confirmed by the main interested party: “My grandfather, I rarely saw him get into a car”. Sacred “Bébel”.