As the 2023 Cesar ceremony arrives at high speed, flashback to Mathilde Seigner’s hiccup in 2012. The actress had bitterly regretted her improvised speech…
There 48th Cesar ceremony will be held on February 24, 2023 at the Olympia. An event synonymous with glitter, stars and cinema… but which also rhymes with dumplings and sometimes even regrets. Mathilde Seigner can attest to this. In 2012, on the occasion of the 37th Cesar ceremony, the actress had been tasked with presenting the award for “Best Actor in a Supporting Role”. A performance that had still earned him some criticism. And for good reason, after calling Michel Blanc on stage to present him with the prestigious trophy for his role in State Exercise by Pierre Schoeller, Mathilde Seigner spoke again to… invite JoeyStarr on stagealso nominated in this category for his role in polishes of Maïwenn, on the pretext thatshe would have preferred him to have won the award.
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“I would like, well… if he can come, but I don’t know if we have the right”, she began, in a particularly rambling style. And to continue: “Just, I would like him to go up, Didier [le prénom de JoeyStarr ndlr.]because I’m glad you have it, Michel [Blanc]but I wanted it to be… Anyway, sorry. Didier, where are you my Didou, come! Come !“ Sitting in the audience, JoeyStarr, dying of laughter, did not however get up, simply applauding, while Michel Blanc, on stage, proposed to him, a “alternating custody” of the statuette. “Every other week and half of the school holidays”added Mathilde Seigner.
JoeyStarr responsible for Mathilde Seinger’s blunder?
Remarks that she then had bitterly regrettedthese having been poorly perceived by a number of viewers. In a statement, including She had echoed, his lawyer, Me Vincent Tolédano, had made it known that “Mathilde Seigner [regrettait] his clumsiness at the Caesarswhich does not justify[ait] not the smear campaign that she [avait fait] the object…” And to indicate: “She apologized to Michel Blanc.” In his words, it was “with a knowing wink at JoeyStarr with whom she turns[ait] Max, the new film by Stéphanie Murat”. On his side, JoeyStarr had taken his share of responsibility in the case three years later, in 2015, with the magazine SoFilmtaken back by Closer. “I had put rum in his glass of champagne”he confessed.