“I don’t have much to do with him”: 18 years ago, Gerard Lanwin

If Gerard Lanwin and Frank Duboski’s formed duo left the sign in the first camping, it was surprising that the absence of Michel Saint-Joss character. Many were wondering why the actor did not express his role in the second film. The answer is simple: Lanwin did not want to repeat the experience.

Whenever Camping He arrived in theaters in 2006, it was an immediate blow. Society is subject to the witchcraft of Les Flots-Bleus, these fictitious camps where families and colorful regulars are crowded together. Among them, Patrick Chirac, an exclusive camper that performs Frank Dubosk The icon becomes instantly. But there is another character: Michel Saint-Joz, a bourgeois surgeon performed Gerard LanwinHe was forced to take a vacation in the camp after the car collapse.

The contrast between the personalities of the two characters has contributed to the immense popular success of the film, with almost 5 million assumptions. However, when continued, Lanwin refused to suggest, despite an attractive financial offer.

Actor’s conflicts

Beyond this decision, the tension between the two actors, in particular the form of bitterness by Lanvin, is born. In an interview with our site dated 2007, he said:

”Once I did in favor of Frank Dubosko, I wouldn’t do it twice, especially with all the good that he said about us. This is Frank Dubosk’s film, Camping, right? Nevertheless, I felt that I was playing in it. I think the partner has an obligation to talk about the pleasure he has spoken to with the opposite person (…)”

It especially reduces the fact that Dubosk, he says, has received the whole credit for the film, even though he thinks Frank Dubosk.

”Camping works just because I found a job. The beginning of the subject was already chosen, but I was the one who found the idea for my character, I was the one who found the fact that his old car was falling next to the camp, and that was the idea of ​​a character observing the other in his delirium.”

Inappropriate return to Lanvin

Obviously irritated, Gerard Lanwin He adds that he does not want to return to the extension where he will have to, in his words, ”Play a fool“, The role that he ironically gives Dubosk:”I can’t see why I would go back to the camp, after a man’s game who hates camping. You have to play an idiot, but it wasn’t my role, it was Frank Dubosko …”

For his part, director Fabien Ontenente has always explained that Saga’s structure Camping Created to develop Patrick Chirac in front of a new character with each Opus. Thus, Richard Anconina took the second film and then the trio of young actors in the 3rd camp. This said that this justification is not enough to cover deep disagreement between the two stars of the first movie.

Attempted to reconcile after 10 years

These professional differences have led to a real division between the two actors who have almost never spoken for almost a decades. In 2015, their reconciliation attempt was adopted by Full Board, La – the Kitchen Remain Au Burre (1963) Florent Emilio Syria, where Lanvin and Duboski took the roles that were previously played by Burville and Fernandel and where they play the opposite … by turning to each other.

But this meeting did not have the desired effect. The film is a commercial and artistic failure. In the given interview Bfmtv In 2020, Gerard Lanwin Did not reduce his words.

”It was a business film. We went out. You have to get it. We took it. You don’t go to 6 million Camping records from 200,000 records. Everything around the movie has to be useless.”

The center of attention and the obvious success of popular comedies sometimes hides a much more nuanced reality. Actors of opposite visions, unmistakable tensions and professional frustration. A decade of cold Gerard Lanwin Sister Frank Dubosk Proof of this.

Three parts of the camping saga as well as A full plaque Available on Netflix.