“This is a fake”: When Lino Ventura defended Jean Gabin on TV

Lino Ventura was known to honor certain values ​​- in the foreground, to which friendship is devotion – and for its legendary appearance. This testifies to his appearance on Swiss television in 1985.

“It’s a fake, it’s a lining”

Guest of the movie program CloseLino Ventura finds an extract that Clodett reads to her, the co-president of the show. In the magazine ArtYoung critic François Trufout wrote in 1959 about Jean Gabin and Gerard Philippe:

“These are very dangerous artists who decide on the script or correct it if they do not like it.

With this reading, Ventura’s blood only takes tours and her answer is not much time:

“It’s fake, despicable. That you just read “He asked for a close distance” (…) I don’t understand that we are writing such things as unjust, so stupid. “

“I ask for nothing at all”

The other leader, Christian Defaye, is still reviving the actor, arguing that the largest stars are still watching the scenarios where they behave:

“Of course, but I don’t ask for anything at all”Ventura retort. “I give my point of view. But this is not a requirement, everyone can point out their point of view, we are director in terms of rally. Everyone brings its small grain in sand history. ”

Lino Ventura and Jean Gabin will be the game partners six times, not touching Grizza, where Ventura only plays a simple ugly (1954) in Sicilian Clan (1954) and becomes close friends, sharing the same vision of life and the same values. Gabin’s death will be deeply reached in November 1976, which in turn died on October 22, 1987.