“Should you play a C*n but it was not my role”: why after the success of Camping, Gérard Lanvin remained angry for ten years with Franck Dubosc? – Actus cinema

It is officially the holidays on Netflix. Meanwhile, which offers its subscribers today to (re) see the Camping Trilogy. However, These three films immerse us in the tumultuous adventures of the Camping des Flots-Bleus. Nevertheless, its regular vacationers: the Pic, a retired couple, the Gatineau who do not stop arguing without forgetting of course the only and the only Patrick Chirac.

“So, aren’t we waiting for Patrick?” – "should you play c*n but

Camping brings together a high -flying cast. composed in particular “should you play c*n but of Franck Dubosc, Claude Brasseur, Mathilde Seigner or Gérard Lanvin. Following the immense success encountered by this first film. most of the performers repaired for the future, with the notable exception of Gérard Lanvin.

Despite “The big check” Who was offered to him to appear in Camping 2. Gérard Lanvin decided to distance himself from the saga. In an interview he granted us in 2007. the now 75 -year -old actor returned to this decision and his complicated relations with Franck Dubosc, the other star of the film.

“I did a service once to Franck Dubosc. I won’t do it twice, especially with all the good he said about us. It is Franck Dubosc’s film, right? However I felt like I played in it.”he said in particular during this interview. Although he was not credited as a screenwriter. Gérard Lanvin revealed to us that he has greatly contributed to the “should you play c*n but writing of his character:

The starting subject was already chosen but it was I who found the idea of my character, it was I who found the fact that his old car broke down next to a campsite, and it was I who found the idea of a character who observes the other in his delirium.

For Gérard Lanvin. a return to Camping 2 had no meaning in any case since his character is supposed to hate this type of vacation. “I do not see why I will come back to a campsite after having embodied a man who hates camping. Should play an idiot but it was not my role, it is that of Franck Dubosc …”he explained with his usual outspokenness.

Reunions that have met the expected success

The two men thus remained angry ten years. before celebrating their reconciliation via the release of a “should you play c*n but new film. Gérard Lanvin. Franck Dubosc have indeed shared the full board poster, a remake of the cult comedy the butter cuisine which brought together at the time two other big names in French cinema: Fernandel and Bourvil.

Bitter reunions, since success was not there. To our colleagues from BfmtvGérard Lanvin had not had tender words towards this comedy: “It was a business film. We got fucked. You have to accept it. We get up. You don’t go from the 6 million camping admissions to 200,000 admissions like that. There must be all around the film of nullity.”

The camping trilogy is to (re) see now on Netflix.

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