The emotion is still very present. This Friday, January 19, Gérard Hernandez was the guest of C to you, to evoke the prime Household scenes – Plans on the comet, broadcast on January 29 on M6. On set, the person concerned unsurprisingly returned to the death of Marion Game, his long-time partner in the series. “Did the disappearance of Marion Game even make you think about stopping the series?” asked Anne-Elisabeth Lemoine of the 90-year-old actor. “Ah yes, I wanted to stop“, he confirmed, before explaining his reasoning. “It is called Scenes of households, I was no longer a householdI was a loner. But hey, there is a gentleman from the M6 who told me: ‘well you stay’“, he said.
“Just the ‘you’re staying’ convinced you? You’re not hard to convince!“, Patrick Cohen’s accomplice remarked, amusedly. “No no, it’s not ‘you stay’, It’s the way you say it that’s important. He told me with so much tenderness that we couldn’t refuse. And then, in production, they are so great“, confided Gérard Hernandez, moved, on the set of It’s up to you. And to underline with humor: “We always say that: ‘the film happened in an astonishing way, the people were brothers, it was a family.’ My ass! No there it’s true, I wouldn’t have stayed fifteen years…“, justified Raymond’s interpreter.
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Gérard Hernandez: why he almost never played in Household Scenes
Since 2009, Gérard Hernandez plays the role of Raymond every evening on M6, old cantankerous grump but very endearing from the series Scenes of households. A role that sticks so closely to him that some people on the street call him “Mr Raymond” Or “Raymond”as he confided to our colleagues at Pocket TV, in an interview published in August 2023. However, this essential role of his career, Gérard Hernandez almost never occupied it!
To our colleagues, the 90-year-old actor revealed that he almost refused the job by discovering the original Spanish broadcast of which Scenes of households is adapted: “I looked especially at the old couple and it was bad“, he explained, after the journalist asked him if he had really found this first version “scary and vulgar“, which was confirmed by the person concerned. “Nicolas de Tavernost (president of M6, Editor’s note.) nevertheless had a hollow nose when buying it“, however recognized the actor, emphasizing the prowess of the work of French authors: “All the credit goes to the French authors. They transformed the vulgar into crude“ he estimated.
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