“I want you to play bro!” : Gilles Lelouch recounts his incredible encounter with Robert Downey Jr.

After the marathon promotional tour for his new film, L’amour ouf, hit theaters on Wednesday, after presenting in official competition at the recent Cannes Film Festival, Gilles Lelouch put his bag on the show bench. Hot ones; A French version of an American show that is a huge success. and became a mandatory passage.

As a reminder, the premise of the show, presented here by Kian Khojandi, is to interview talent over a plate of ten buffalo-style chicken wings or drumsticks, increasingly spicy. On the table: ten hot sauces, from 1,700 to a million units on the Scoville scale. It’s hot ahead!

Gilles walks down the road

In the last episode, Gilles Lelouch tells a very tasty anecdote, even without the fire of the palate, about Guy Ritchie’s film Sherlock Holmes 2. Imagine being cut out during the editing of the film!

At the end of November 2010, the actor-director announced on the set of Le Grand Journal that he was joining the cast of a film that had just begun shooting in the UK and was to be shot in Strasbourg. He did not specify the nature of his role, and his absence from the feature film’s photos and trailers only added to the mystery. Until the release of this game Shadows… of which it is completely absent.

“I don’t understand anything I’m learning!”

“I had a really big scene, like three pages of text that I learned by heart because I’m not quite bilingual. So I had to work a lot. I still have stage fright. Jude Law, Robert Downey Jr., Guy Ritchie…

And he’s talking at 400 km/h, between English and Scottish accents… I can’t understand anything. And in the corner, the guy writes down everything they say. After a while, I realize that the whole scene is being rewritten. But it’s been a month since I learned mine.

We go to Robert’s trailer and there he gives me my scene. We don’t have a single word in common anymore that I’ve learned. I go to my caravan, I don’t understand anything I’m studying, but I’m still studying. I start playing, I’m not comfortable at all, my heart is racing… I’m so scared that I even have one ear blocked.

Finally I do my thing, end of scene, applause. And there’s Downey Jr. telling me, “What you just played is extraordinary.” After that he takes me to his caravan, tells me about his life, tells me that he is tired of Marvel movies, that his parents loved European cinema…

He took me to the train home and said, “Listen, my wife is a movie producer and we have a movie project about two brothers and I want you to play my brother, I’m going again. I’m Mick Jagger in my head.

Six months later, my agent calls me and says, “There’s a problem with Sherlock Holmes, we’re going to have to shoot your whole scene, it’s not good.” – Oh, it’s okay, when will we return it? “No, but they’ll actually bring you back without you.” So I went from the guy who was supposed to play Robert Downey Jr.’s brother to a guy who isn’t even in the movie anymore. Good emotional lift!”

A bit stiff, really…