Gainsbourg (Heroic Life): meeting with Eric Elmosnino
The actor received the César for his portrayal of Serge Gainsbourg. We met him at the beginning of 2010, just before the release of the biopic event directed by Joann Sfar.
Gainsbourg (heroic life) will return this Saturday evening on France 4. Just before its release, Eric Elmosnino had told how he had slipped into the skin of Serge Gainsbourg has First.
Gainsbourg (heroic life), It is a film inspired by the life and loves of the actor who played the “Lilac Puncher”. However, its director, Joann Sfar, doesn’t want to hear about biopic. According to him, his film is a kind of homage to the artist, between real-life scenes and fantasized scenes. Author and comic book artist (The Rabbi’s Catamong others), Sfar offers a personal and offbeat project. It is also this dream aspect that pleased Serge’s family, and which allowed him to obtain the rights for this film.
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On the casting side, he therefore chose Eric Elmosnino to embody the singer. If the resemblance is striking, the actor affirms that he did not seek to imitate Gainsbourg, but that he tried to be inspired by his gestures, his fragility… He also returns to the female casting, composed of Laetitia Casta, Anna Mouglalis or even Lucy Gordon, disappeared shortly before the film’s release. Actresses who play the women seduced by Gainsbourg: Brigitte Bardot, Juliette Greco And Jane Birkin.
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