“We did more feminist sketches than anything we can do today”

She wanted “To make Gisèle Halimi as a profession”, when she was young. Failing to be a lawyer, the actress Michèle Bernier plays Constance Meyer, The trainee Fifty-year-old judge Boris Delcourt in the series of the same name, which, since 2015, has gathered 5.1 million viewers on average per episode. It’s a beginning.

Barely the last episode of season 6 broadcast on France 3, on April 13, that the resumption of the shooting of season 7 was set for the beginning of July. In the meantime, that morning, Michèle Bernier took the opportunity to record a salvo of broadcasts from “Grosses Têtes”, hosted by Laurent Ruquier on RTL – “I love it when I can go. Laurent does not forbid himself anything! We don’t take ourselves seriously: it’s like a recess. “ Before receiving us in the afternoon in his Parisian apartment. We’ll leave just before curfew, and on foot, so we don’t have to blow the ball.

Precursor trio

Indeed, if The world was then still not authorized to “pay off” at the local brewery, he had brought something to liven up the debate. The lady loving red burgundy, it was a 2013 Aloxe-Corton from Bouchard. And organic apple juice …

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Glasses, ramekins, Michèle Bernier, who is tired of not being able to organize parties at home, is in her business. “There were 61 of us here on New Years Eve! “ A quick glance in the living room allows you to assess the performance. “They were everywhere: here, there and there”she said, pointing to the electric blue carpet, the industrial-style table with deceptively aged slats and a fantastic white leather chair-throne, the back of which rises to six feet in height.

The eclecticism of styles and colors is such that it becomes harmonious and very warm. “I moved here as a tenant after my divorce. It has been twenty years. “ Her divorce from Bruno Gaccio, co-author of “Guignols de l’Info” (1992-2007) on Canal + and the father of her two children: Charlotte, born in 1987, and Enzo, in 1996.

The couple had “Met for laughs, for a show we did together” for “Le Petit Théâtre de Bouvard”, a hilarious program broadcast from 1982 to 1987 on Antenne 2 (future France 2), which launched many comedians. Including Mimie Mathy and Isabelle de Botton, who formed, with Michèle Bernier, Les Filles, a pioneering feminist trio, who did not allow themselves to be dictated by standards at a time when little was said about the right to be different and grossophobia. ” My parents [Odile Vaudelle, qui se suicide quand Michèle a 29 ans, et Georges Bernier alias Professeur Choron, fondateur des journaux satiriques Hara-Kiri et Charlie Hebdo] taught me to laugh at everything for fear of having to cry, as the other would say. Even with the mess, the shit, there was such madness in the house that it made you want! I was happy in there. “

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