“Dying…”: Gérard Jugnot, sad clown, his sinister remark in the middle of an interview

While at the 28th International Comedy Film Festival of Alpe d'Huez for the presentation of his next film Y'a pas de réseau”, in theaters on August 6, Gérard Jugnot made a very sad confession…

© Christophe Clovis/Bestimage “Shooting with young people is great! First of all because the old people are dying…,” Gérard Jugnot declared in the columns of Le Parisien.

IN BRIEF

• Gérard Jugnot recently made a moving confession at the Alpe d'Huez Comedy Film Festival.
• In the middle of an interview, the 73-year-old actor spoke about the “old people who are dying”.
• He was probably referring to his friend Michel Blanc, who died last October.

He laughs, he makes people laugh, but Gérard Jugnot has a lot on his mind. Passing through the 28th International Comedy Film Festival of Alpe d'Huez for the presentation of his next film There's no network, in theaters on August 6, the 73-year-old actor made a particularly sinister confidence to Le Parisien.

While he was discussing his collaboration with Maxime Gasteuil, with whom he shares the bill in this new comedy by Edouard Pluvieux, the actor declared: “Filming with young people is great! First because the old people are dying…But even so, I would have been delighted to work with Noiret, Marielle, Rochefort, without comparing myself, of course. I played with Jean Carmet who was over 60, he was a child, he only talked crap, we were in sync. There is an international comedy that makes us on the same wavelength regardless of age.”

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Gérard Jugnot upset by the death of Michel Blanc

By evoking these “old people who are dying“, Jugnot was probably referring to his friend Michel Blanc, who died last October following anaphylactic shock. À At the time, the star of Santa Claus is a scumbag had shared all his pain on social networks. “Fuck, Michel… What have you done to us…”, he had reacted in an Instagram story.

Devastated by the loss of his colleague from the Splendid, Gérard Jugnot had then held back his tears on several television sets. He had then mentioned “a big miss” in the columns of Paris Match. “There is a big lack, because there was absolute connivance between us in the joke. We laughed less when we all found ourselves at the church for his funeral. Even if we tried to laugh about it a little bit…”

“I am of a certain age but I still do bullshit”

“Trying to laugh”, that's what he continues to do despite everything. Still at the Alpe d'Huez Festival, Gérard Jugnot promised to continue to laugh and make people laugh in his next films. “I'm a certain age but I still do stupid things like sticking my head in a toilet, you have to dare, but it's great! I'd rather do that than play Scrabble in a retirement home” he said.

In There's no network, Gérard Jugnot and Maxime Gasteuil camp a pair of retarded thugs trying to sabotage a relay antenna. They are then surprised by two young children, whom they chase into an isolated forest. A hilarious scenario à la Home Alone that promises to conquer all the theaters!