Gérard Darmon had difficult career debut. The 77 -year -old actor was heavily injured on a set alongside Louis de Funès … in general indifference! The actor returned to this humiliating episode at the microphone of RTL.
Before becoming an important figure in French cinema, Gérard Darmon chained small roles. In 1973, he had notably filmed in the cult The adventures of Rabbi Jacobwho camped one of Farès’s henchmen. But the shooting had been particularly complicated for the actor, of which it was one of the leading roles in the cinema …
Gérard Darmon, injured during a shoot with Funès: “I was a m*rde, I could die …”
At the time of filming Rabbi Jacob’s adventuresGérard Darmon was still far from being the star of the 7th French art that he is today. So when he injured himself while he was shooting a scene, no one really cared about his state. The actor was present when he had to shoot the scene, cult, during which the characters are immersed in a chewing gum tank. To get this liquid on the screen, the film team had prepared … A huge pancake dough with a green dye!
And this product entered the eyelids of Gérard Darmon. “It was very very painful. I felt like I had a handful of sand in the eyes (…) it was intense“, remembered, at the microphone of RTL, the interpreter of Amonbofis in Asterix and Obelix: Cleopatra missionBut the pain of it had gone unnoticed on the set. However, the young actor had a detachment of the cornea because of this green dye. “”I was a m*rde so I could die with my two eyes out of their orbit hanging. We don’t care“He said.
Gérard Darmon, frank: “It made me wheat, I earned money …”
But when the star of the feature film, Louis de Funès, was injured in turn the next day, because of the same product, the treatment of the film of the film was entirely different! “”The land stopped turning“Said Gérard Darmon, still frustrated at not being treated with the same consideration as his colleague at the time.
Despite everything, the actor, now 77 years old, had found an ally in the person of Louis de Funès: “He was with me, we treated each other“He said at the microphone of Jean-Luc Reichman’s podcast.
Virginie’s father, 38, Sarah, 30, Jules, 28, and Léna, 8, however found a positive side to these incidents: “Instead of lasting three days, the shooting lasted more than 10 days, so it made me wheat, I was happy. I had made money.“What to see the glass half full.
