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Nicolas Bedos: "Isabelle Adjani had a lot of fun"

11/1/2022, 4:17:16 PM


INTERVIEW - The director of La Belle Époque and OSS 117 Red Alert in Black Africa returns with a fourth film where he stages a duo of scammers on the Côte d'Azur... Before delivering his first series soon to be broadcast on Amazon Prime Video with Jean Dujardin.

He leaves the Paris headquarters of Pathé with the idea of ​​having lunch.

After smoking a cigarette in front of Mr. Georges' entrance (

"I'm trying to stop, but with the stress of the film's release, it doesn't help"

), Nicolas Bedos orders

"a tartare without fries , with mineral water

.

Beige leather jacket, frank smile and blue eyes, the director of

Masquerade gives

himself up without make-up and without double game.

LE FIGARO.

- Where did the idea for the film come from?

Nicholas Bedos.

- It starts from a visceral desire to see romantic films.

It was first an unfinished novel where I told very dark episodes of this region, which I love and which disgusts me, the Riviera.

These are also somewhat dark bits of my life, where I praise the Côte d'Azur with a Fitzgeraldian side.

All of this ended up forming the fabric of this scenario.

She confessed to me that she had had difficult nights.

But she had a lot of fun too.

Nicolas Bedos, on Isabelle Adjani

What motivated you this time?

After talking about the couple in

Mr. and Mrs. Adelman

, of the love passion in

La Belle Époque

, I wanted to talk about desire…

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