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Shooting some movie scenes can sometimes be more dangerous than you imagine. Between the underwater sequences where James Cameron nearly drowned in the abyss, or Michael J. Amidst Fox’s misadventures in Back to the Future 3, certain actors have come close to dangerous situations. In 2017, it was Laurent Lafitte who experienced such a moment on the set of Albert Dupontel’s historical film and dramatic comedy Au Revoir Là-haut.
The actor who plays Lt. Pradel remembers a particularly difficult scene: his character was buried alive. If this idea was already stressful for the actor, it awakened a latent phobia in him: claustrophobia.
“I’m a little claustrophobic. I was a little bit, but not too much, and it got worse because of the movie. Albert Dupontel’s Au Revoir Haut, I’m Dying Buried Under Tons of Sand“- explained the actor.
for the stage Laurent Lafitte He had to remain buried under a large amount of cork debris, jacked up on a platform that had to be raised after a few seconds of apnea.
“(…) It wasn’t sand, because it would be too heavy, it would really break, it was pieces of cork, but there was a lot of it. (…) I was standing on a plate with jacks, I was buried under this ton of cork and I had to hold on to apnea for a few seconds, I had it everywhere, and then the platform lifted and pulled me out of the pile of traffic jams.“
Mechanical failure and prolonged apnea
The problem is that the platform mechanism stopped working at a crucial moment. For a few seconds, the actor was completely stuck: it was impossible to move his hand, deprived of air, in the middle of what was creating an impression on him.hard water“.
“I understand that the system is not working, I am completely buried, I can’t even touch my hand, it’s hard water, I can’t do anything, and above (…) I hear panic movements. And I’m completely petrified in a mass, unable to do anything, on apnea. And there, it was hollow, and they released my head so that I could breathe, and then they took me out with their hands, but I was scared, in terrible agony. Obviously, it was the first shoot, I had to do it again later.“
Despite this fear, Laurent Lafitte So it was necessary to start the scene again for the next shoot. An experience that, he says, had a profound effect on his perception of the space he enclosed, and which shows the sometimes unknown risks actors face when bringing their characters to life.
Au Revoir Là-haut can be found on VOD.
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