“Rambo has arrived at the restaurant”: After 30 years, this famous French director still remembers his meeting with Stallone

Were recently invited to a chair The program legendFamous French filmmaker Luke Besson has devoted time to many anecdotes about his rich career. He particularly mentioned one of his most famous films: The Thriller Léon, which is performed by Natalie Portman and Jean Reno.

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“Rambo has arrived at the restaurant”

The latter was to ask Luke Besson to write a character in the same vein after the game of “Victor Cleanser” in Nikita. Until he finally became convinced that the role of a salary murder mutation, Besson made it possible to transfer essays to other actors, and especially on two Hollywood monuments, in particular Robert de Niro and Sylvester Stalone.

During the legend microphone, the filmmaker then explained why the rock interpreter did not receive the role and told his incredible meeting with the star:

“There was a lot of meeting … Rambo arrived at the restaurant. It was impossible. He set up a restaurant in Los Angeles. A long restaurant with a window window and finally on a round table”Besson said and specified that upon arrival, he was directly asked to sit in front of the entrance, according to Stalone’s wish.

“I couldn’t design myself in Leon”

“I’m sitting in the opposite way, so I have a restaurant and an entrance door at the end. And there, he’s I’m a rebellion. In the background, at every table that cares for him. (…) He has crazy humor, it was a robbery of himself, almost. We hang it very quickly, but very rambo, very rocky. I couldn’t design myself in Leon. “

After the meeting of this anthology, Luke Besson decided to defend his first intuition and choose Jean Reno to portray Leon.

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