When she was 3, her cousins took her to her nanny on horseback on a motorcycle tank.
Despite "the fear", Rémy Julienne asks only to start over.
With age, his fear of speed turned into strength, to become one of the great stuntmen in the history of cinema.
It was at the age of 90, after having escaped death 17 times on film sets, that the “Einstein of the waterfalls” died of the Covid-19.
Over a career spanning more than 40 years, Rémy Julienne has performed 1,400 acrobatics and made no less than 400 films.
His career began in 1964, when stuntman Gil Delamare asked him to participate in the filming of Fantômas.
“I was the French motorcycle champion and you needed someone very precise” to drive a motorcycle and overtake Jean Marais.
“It fell on me,” he says.
From then on, Julienne will work with the greatest directors: François Truffaut, Leos Carax, Dino Risi, Terence Young or Sydney Pollack.
But especially alongside movie stars like Jean-Paul Belmondo, whom he will find on the sets 14 times.
In his filmography, six James Bonds, but also classics of French cinema: Le Mur de l'Atlantique (Marcel Camus), Le Solitaire (Jacques Deray), Le Cerveau (Gérard Oury), L'Aventure C'est l'Aventure (Claude Lelouch).
In 1999, a drama marked his career when he was 69 years old: during the filming of "Taxi 2", the cameraman was killed by the car launched too quickly and from too high, which landed far beyond the marks provided for in ground.
Rémy Julienne, who was not at the wheel, will dedicate his memoirs to him, “The stunts of my life”.