“I did Frank Dubosk a favor once, I won’t do it twice”: Why didn’t Gerard Lanvin return to Camping 2?

In camping, Gerard Lanvin and Franck Dubosque make a fantastic tandem. The alchemy between the naive Patrick Chirac (Dubosky) and the nervous Michel Saint-José (Lanvin) works wonderfully. Boasting 5 million entries at the national box office, Fabien Onteniente’s comedy had 2 sequels.

(Television) viewers discovering Camping 2, broadcast this August 28 on TF1, may logically wonder: But why is Gerard Lanvin not in this sequel? In fact, when the second installment was announced, Gerard Lanvin stated that he would not be reprising his role in Camping 2. “Despite the great scrutiny that the production offered him”. A decision that followed a disagreement with screenwriter and actor Frank Dubois.

In a 2007 interview with AlloCiné, Gérard Lanvin reflected on his absence: “I’ve done Frank Dubosk a favor once, I won’t do it twice, especially for the kind things he said about us. It’s Frank Dubosk’s Camping Movie, isn’t it? I think I played into it, though. That a partner has an obligation to talk about the pleasures that He had a conversation with the opposite person (…) I don’t have much business with a person who does not understand the imperative and irreplaceable presence of others.

“I got to play the idiot, but it wasn’t my role, it was Frank Dubosky’s…”

Therefore, the quarrel between the actors stems from the fact that, according to Lanvin, Frank Dubosk took all the credit for the success of Camping. We remind you that the comedy is inspired by a sketch by Frank Dubosky, who also contributed to the writing of the film. Gérard Lanvin nevertheless specified that he participated in the development of her character and the latter’s plot (without naming a co-writer in the credits).

“Camping only works because I found a job. The initial theme was already chosen, but I found the idea for my character, I discovered the fact that his old car breaks down near the camp, and it was me. Who came up with the character, who observes another in his delirium, this It wasn’t my role, it was Frank DuBosky’s…”

If Gerard Lanvin doesn’t mince his words, director Fabien Onteniente, with whom he already worked on 3 Zero in 2002, specifies that Michel Saint-Jose should not return in the Camping sequel and that it was planned from the beginning that a new character would face Patrick Chirac in each film (Richard Anconina Camping 2- and young actors Luka Meliava, Cyril Mendy and Jules Rittmanik in Camping 3). Another point of contention…

But the actors seem to have put their differences aside, as in 2015 they both starred in Florent Syre’s comedy Pension complet (a remake of La Cuisine au verre). The movie where they go to war…