“You’re not funny”: Valerie Lemercier talks about the atmosphere of filming guests

Wondering why Valérie Lemercier aka Béatrice de Montmirail in Les Visiteurs wasn’t in part two? Apart from the desire not to repeat the same thing again, there may have been other reasons related to the general atmosphere on the set.

And even if you know the movie by heart, you haven’t seen these two winks hidden on the same sign!

guest of the show The lovely gesture will be broadcast on France 2 On Sunday, November 12, actress Valérie Lemercier returned to the set of Jean-Marie Poire’s Les Visiteurs, 13.78 million admissions during its French release on January 27, 1993. Tense atmosphere behind the scenes:

It was a tough shoot, maybe I’m tired, maybe a mini melon from doing the whole tour show. (…) Jean-Marie was not happy, he came to me in the evening to say: “You are not funny.” Christian’s make-up artist, when he saw Marie-Anne Chazelle arrive, said, “Finally a funny woman.”

“I said to myself, ‘I’m not giving them what they want, I’m not funny enough.’ Believe in him.”

Words and sarcasm that Valérie Lemercier has already responded to in the press and explained his absence in Visitors 2.

That being said, the actor-director also recalls in Beau geste that he is “very happy to be in the film” and that “popularity” Fiction “please”.

The Guests is a trilogy, as the first film was followed by The Guests 2: The Corridors of Time (1998), but also The Guests Revolution (2016). Meanwhile, an American remake was released with Jean Reno and Christian Clavier reprising their roles: Guests in America (2001). With 9,284 ratings at the time of this thread, the latter movie has a rating of 1.0 out of 5, reflecting the audience’s disdain for this remake.

We have many iconic lines from the first film by Valerie Lemercier, including: “Mr Oil, not your poncho”, “Do you have a polo?” or “You’re hysterical, hub!”