“An elephant that misleads enormously” : the day Jean Rochefort has asked for forgiveness to Anny Duperey – Gala

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In tribute to Jean Rochefort, who died at the age of 87, on the night of Sunday to Monday, 9 October, France 2 broadcasts An elephant that misleads enormously and We will go all to heaven, two comedies signed Yves Robert. In the first, the actor fell under the spell of a statuesque brunette with blue eyes, Anny Duperey. The actress and writer, remembers…

It was in the seventies. Jean Rochefort, who had just died at the age of 87 years, was going to give the reply to a young woman with breathtaking beauty, Anny Duperey. The actress who was shooting with Yves Robert and Pierre RichardThe troubles of Alfred was at the theatre when the two friends came to offer him a comedy.

“There was no casting at the time, remembers Anny Duperey, the filmmakers came to see the actors at the theatre. They have here all the two in my dressing room, and I have submitted the scenario of An elephant that misleads enormously, saying : “We know that this is not what you are looking for because you hunts the against-employment to try to diversify a bit your image, but lack of pot, it offers you exactly the opposite!”. “

At the time, Jean Rochefort was not known that Victor Lanoux, Claude Brasseur or Guy Bedos. Anny Duperey remembers a man already very funny, more charming than seductive. She found a few years later, for a telefilm, an adaptation of The second of Colette, by Christopher Frank, a story in which two women are in love with the same man, a successful author.

“I had suggested Jean-Pierre Marielle who I had just run for the role , “says Anny Duperey. The response from Marielle : “Anny, this is not possible ! That a woman is in love with me, it is already quite unlikely, but two, one falls into the ridiculous total ! I can’t, I’d be horribly embarrassed ! But you should propose this to Jean Rochefort, because to him, there would be thirty on his knees in front of him, he would find it completely normal ! ” That’s how John and Anny have shared the screen for the second time.

And then one day, a few years ago, Anny Duperey receives a call from Jean Rochefort. “He called me to ask me for forgiveness, “says the actress. He had told a reporter who asked him why, according to him, I had not made an international career, it was because I fringuais hurt too much and was afraid that this was returned -it was ! “”The height, she adds, is that I’ve heard, a little later, in the program C to you, to tell thata con of actor had told him exactly the same thing, at the time of the Conservatory, that he would not succeed because he was dressed too poorly ! It really made me laugh. ”

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Anny Duperey, Jean Rochefort

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