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- Jean Poiret, La miraculé, France, 1986. Originally, the ever-rebellious satirist Jean-Pierre Mocky had no wish to rely on his own old pals, the Cage aux Folles team of Poiret and Michel Serrault as Papu and Reginald Fox-Terrier. For the debunking of Lourdes, he wanted Michel Blanc and Coluche. Tragically, Coluche was suddenly dead - crushed on his motor-bike by a heavy lorry. A shaken Blanc withdrew - in the first registered letter Mocky had ever received from an actor!’
- Daniel Auteuil, Quelque jours avec moi (US: A Few Days With Me), France, 1987. SupremerealisateurClaude Sautet wanted Blanc; co-scenarist Jacques Fieschi voted Lambert Wilson. (Mix them together and what do you get but Auteuil). Despite having shared the 1986 Best Actor award at Cannes for Tenue de soirée, “I was not right for it,” said the actor-director Blanc, who writes better for himself. At his agency, Artmedia, everyone thought he was mad. “No one wanted to talk to me… But Daniel brought to the part a seduction that I didn’t have.” Not the best judge of scripts, Auteuil rejected it (like Blanc) until his then-lover, Emmanuelle Beart, said: “You’re an idiot or what? This is Claude Sautet!!!” They made Sautet’s Un Coeur en Hivertogether in 1994 and she was Nelly & M Arnaudwas Michel Serrault in the director’s 16th and final film in 1995. Pierre Arditi, Vanille fraise, France, 1989. Gérard Oury, once the top French comedy-maker, had devised it for the extremely odd coupling of Blanc-Deneuve. Blanc wrote his own comedy for her, Grosse Fatigue, 1994, except her role (as herself) went to Carole Bouquet (as herself)..
- Jean-Pierre Mocky, Le mari de Léon, France, 1993. Always the loner, Mocky took on the role, himself, when everyone refused it from Gérard Depardieu to Richard Bohringer.
- Patrick Timsit, Passage a l'acte, France, 1996. So another comic went straight as Timsit lay in the couch trying to convince his shrink that he's a killer.
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