The swimming Pool (Arte) : Serge Gainsbourg was armed with a revolver afraid that Alain Delon steals Jane Birkin Gala

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The shooting of the cult film directed by Jacques Deray, The swimming Pool, re-broadcast this Monday, September 11, on Arte, hides a story of the most surprising. Serge Gainsbourg, fearing that Alain Delon will charm Jane Birkin, had provided for the revolver.

Arte will broadcast this evening The swimming Pool, cult film actors, cult : Alain Delon, Romy Schneider, Jane Birkin. The film’s iconic 1968 cache an anecdote singular. The filming, directed by Jacques Deray was almost turning to drama. Serge Gainsbourg, a companion of Jane Birkin at the time, feared that the handsome and brooding Alain Delon steals his beautiful, on the banks of the famous swimming pool of the villa Loumere, in Ramatuelle. Serge Gainsbourg then decides to follow Jane Birkin.

As the story goes, Nicolas Charbonneau in his book the Novel of Saint-Tropez, the singer gets a gun and promises to Jane Birkin to draw if Alain Delon makes advances. The don juan is beautiful and well work its charm, but Serge Gainsbourg did not use his weapon : “Delon has been making advances to Birkin, proposing to him to accompany her wherever she wished at the edge of a Cadillac Fleetwood black driven by a chauffeur that the production had available to her. Jane, innocent, has not seen Delon him turned around, and was smiling Romy.”

In 1968, Alain Delon is no longer with Romy Schneider for several years, it is in full divorce with the mother of his son Anthony, Francine Canovas, more known under the name Nathalie. It was at this same period that he flirts with the one who would become his muse for fifteen years : Mireille Darc. For his part, Serge Gainsbourg has lived a passion ephemeral with Brigitte Bardot, and just fall madly in love with the british actress Jane Birkin. The shooting of The swimming Pool, under high voltage, may not be that terribly feverish.

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