Alain Chabat talks about Asterix: “Even if it seems to be the brothel, it’s still a bit specific”

By toutatis! The comedy with 14.5 million admissions will return this Sunday on TF1.

On April 30, Asterix and Obelix will be the stars of a new adaptation, animated and in series this time, signed Alain Chabat :: The fight of the chiefs. But long before that, TF1 reprogram the director’s cult film: Cleopatra mission will be broadcast from 9:10 p.m.

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While waiting to (re) see the cult comedy ofAlain Chabatwhich brought together 14.5 million spectators in the cinema in 2002, and which worked well during His outspokenness During the summer of 2023, let’s go back to the magazine’s archives. At the time, the actor-director had agreed to make the cover of First in the company of Jamel Debbouzeand the two laughs of laughter had talked about filming in detail. Especially their multiple improvisations. Extracts from their interview “Men in joke”.

Has there been a lot of improvisation from the actors?
Alain / Even if it seems to be the brothel, it’s still a bit specific.
Jamel / It’s super precise. When I play, I need to appropriate the dialogues, you see, almost in free style. But I can only go into a spin if there is a solid base. Alain knew exactly where he wanted to go and, from the moment he obtained it, you could let go. But not before!
Alain / If we respect timing, mechanics, I agree for an improv. I have also kept full.

Like the monologue of Edouard Baer?
Alain / In this specific case, he really had only two or three lines of text and a ad lib. Jamel, keyboard, or Dieudonné are also unlikely, you just have to channel them a little.
Jamel / Without wanting to wave your pumps too much, you did not hesitate to take the risk of shooting scenes that were not planned. I am thinking in particular of the one where I receive a ball sent by the Romans and where I answer them by throwing a pebble. It looks like nothing, but this improvised valve required a day of preparation. It was necessary to calculate the trajectory of the ball, it was quite a mess.

Alain, did the actors amazed you?
Alain / Depardieu, in particular. We could have hired him as a script, as a framework …
Jamel / As a chief accountant, as a cook, as a mechanic, what you want. He is too strong. A real hitman. In France, there is Zizou and Depardieu! (Laughs.)

Jean-Pierre Bacri is thanked in the credits for Bonus valves …
Alain / I showed a first editing of the film to Jean-Pierre, and he added two, three small gratos jokes. He said very seriously to me: maybe it would be funny that they say that, and I fell back on my chair, convulsing laughing, and I said to him: Yeah, you’re right, so, then, I’ll do it if you don’t mind. And him: go ahead, it makes me happy … for example, it was he who found the end of Gérard Darmon.

Luc Besson has come to shoot a day …
Alain / He asked me if he could spend one day because it was laughing at taking a camera while I was shooting. I asked him when he wanted to come and he replied the day when it is the most complicated. He made fatal plans on the day of the 2,000 extras, the time when we did not have the sandstorm … (the scene with the many slaves had to be postponed because of a storm, editor’s note)
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