M6 has just released We’ll Finish Together, the follow-up to the success of Les Petits mouchoors. Did you know that director Guillaume Canet’s days on the set were not easy? Indeed, the end of the shooting, to put it mildly, was not idyllic!
The two films in this saga about friendship were interpreted by friends of the filmmaker, from Benoit Magimel to François Clouse, Marion Cotillard, Gilles Lelouch or Laurent Lafitte, among others.
to the microphone Conbin In 2021, the director returned to the bitter memory that we will finish together, the second opus:
The shooting ended very badly. I’m coming out… I’m a little disappointed in this desire to bring all these people and these characters together… It’s a bit like that feeling when you haven’t seen your friends for a long time, you find them, you. “I’m glad to see them, but at the end of dinner you say to yourself, ‘Oh, phew, here it is.’
And if the group effect turned out to be a little deceptive in the end, Guillaume Canet also lost a strong friendship with one of the film’s actors:
“I thought I had a stronger relationship with this person. Time goes by and I see that it hasn’t changed much. And I realize that in the end what I imagined and dreamed of as a relationship was just a professional relationship. And that’s disappointing.
Marion Cotillard, Vincent Lafitte and Benoit Magimel
Let us remind you that the first opus, Les Petits mouchoors, was not a piece of cake either, as the actor recalled at the premiere in 2019:
“My actors were in complete disarray, smoking fedoras in bathing suits and drinking shots all day. They had absolutely no discipline to make a film. They were extremely difficult to direct.” A concern that never happened Not reproduced in the following:
Benoit Magimel, Marion Cotillard and Gilles Lelouch
The actors were suspicious and worried, much more serious, professional and focused (laughs). I have matured, my vision has changed.
Guillaume Canet has since directed Asterix and Obelix: Middle Empire and already has a number of projects under his belt, including Un coup de dés, a new film directed by Ivan Attali that wrapped last December (coming soon), and Off Season. , the new Stefan Breeze with Alba Rohrwacher, to be shot in spring 2023 (coming soon).
Source: Allocine
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