Last year, while promoting his film L’amour ouf at the recent Cannes Film Festival, Gilles Lelouch stopped by the French version of the show.Hot ones“, hosted by Kian Khojandi. An opportunity for the actor to share a surprising anecdote about the aborted project with Robert Downey Jr. in 2011.
For those unfamiliar with the concept, “Hots” involves interviewing personalities while pitting them against ten increasingly spicy chicken wings accompanied by sauces ranging from 1,700 to a million Scovilles. Principle: To test their courage and ability to be under pressure… hot!
A deleted scene from Sherlock Holmes 2
during transmission, Gilles Lelouchwho currently stars in the sci-fi thriller Dog 51, discussed his experience on Guy Ritchie’s Sherlock Holmes 2: A Game of Shadows, a role he unfortunately did not make in the final film. At the end of 2010, he announced on the set of Grand Journal that he would be filming in Great Britain and would include Strasbourg. Her role has remained a mystery, and her absence from photos and trailers has cemented that mystery.
He says: “I had a really big scene, like three pages of text that I learned by heart because I’m not quite bilingual either. So I had to work a lot. I still have stage fright. arrival Jude Law, Robert Downey Jr., Noomi Rapace, Guy RitchieThe director… and speaks at 400 km/h, between English and Scottish accents… I don’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.“
An important meeting
He is in the caravan Robert Downey Jr. that we tend to Gilles Lelouch His new script – and there the panic begins: there are no words in common with the previous scene. Completely distraught, Gilles begins rehearsing his new scene in his caravan – not without problems.
“We go to Robert’s trailer and there he gives me my scene. No longer a common word I 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.“
However, when the fateful moment comes to play out the scene, he receives an unexpected compliment Robert Downey Jr. :”Finally I do my thing, end of scene, there’s applause. And there’s Downey Jr. telling me, “What you just played is extraordinary.”“
The American actress opens her caravan to him and confides in him: “After which he takes me to his trailer, tells me about his life, tells me that he is tired of Marvel movies, that his parents loved European cinema… Finally, he takes me to the train home and says: “Listen, this is‘My wife is a film producer and we have a film project about two brothers and I want you to play my brother. Here I go again, it’s me Mick Jagger in my head “
emotional lift
Six months later, a phone call from his agent dashed his hopes: his scene Sherlock Holmes 2 It should be redone… but without him.
“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.” “Ah ok no problem when do we get it back?” – No, but they will return it without you. Finally, they took another actor.“
As she explains – before pretending to cry and then burst into laughter – Gilles Lelouch Therefore, it turns out to be without anything: “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. Nice emotional elevator!“
An episode that perfectly captures the attraction of cinema…
Sherlock Holmes 2: A Game of Shadows (sadly without Gilles Lelouch) can be seen on HBO Max. However, you can see Gilles Lelouch Dog 51Now in theaters.
Hear the actor share his crazy anecdote in the video below:
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