"Is everyone in place?" Come on, we repeat and we continue. We are not immune to find some cool stuff. Action! In a kitsch decor where pale pink leatherette armchairs compete with mirrors, shampoo basins and drying hats from another age, Muriel Robin leads her world.
No time to waste in the hair salon "I love you hairstyle new creation" where Ms. Rignac, alias Michèle Bernier in an apron labeled "Charcuterie Rignac", is greeted by Sandrine (Mathilde Seigner), the shampooer with little gum discreet. Between two gossiping with Ms. Boris (Françoise Fabian), head covered with aluminum foils, Ms. Plantin (Mimie Mathy), she waits for us to “cut but we keep the length” of her rebellious mop since her stay in Guadeloupe.
"What shampoo is given to Madame Rignac?" Asks Sandrine. "For very oily hair. And not too hot […] I know my little clients well, ”retorts Liliane, the chief hairdresser.
A five-star cast, chiseled texts and surprises
Behind the control screens, we boggle watching the characters that Muriel Robin has been playing alone on stage for thirty years come to life in the guise of her actress friends gathered this Wednesday in a studio in Pré-Saint-Gervais (Seine-St-Denis ).
With "Addition", "Retirement home" or "Marriage", "Hairdressing salon" will be one of his eleven cult sketches that will fuel a fiction scheduled by this fall on TF1. A five-star cast, chiseled texts and surprises: a UFO piloted by the star of the one-woman-show, actress and for the first time director.
One eye on the dialogues, the other on the movements, the costumes, the cameras… Nothing escapes the "boss". Between the sequences, she laughs with her friends, guides them, congratulates them, worries about finding a seat for "his" Line Renaud who camps Mme Vinard.
"We add funniness to funniness"
"I was nervous at the beginning because I said to myself: as long as she is happy with us," says Michèle Bernier. The atmosphere is great because Muriel is very attentive. It's timed, she reviews the catch and shows her contentment. "She has authority, precision. He's a very good director, ”adds Mathilde Seigner. “Muriel wrote according to my current situation since I am pregnant. It will make a great memory! continues Anouchka Delon alias Chantal, the intern with a rounded belly. To play it, she left me a freedom. "
Each take is an opportunity for actresses to refine and bring their touch. Mrs. Plantin's hair too dry? "Wild! It's more practical on the pedal boat, ”replies Mimie Mathy. "That I hadn't written. There is authorization to invent, specifies Muriel Robin. People who know the sketches well will have new nuggets brought by my partners. We add funniness to funniness. "
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Go from comedy to directing for the one who also resumes her show “Et pof! "? "I can't check the catch as much as I want because I'm always in the picture. A little frustration but Anne (Le Nen), my fiancée, and my cinematographer watch. My characters are at the bottom of my guts. This allows me to say action and in the second that follows to be the hairdresser. "
Total involvement
After showing Mathilde Seigner how to position a helmet or to practice putting on hair curlers, here she is again Liliane, short raven cut with a blond wick, T-shirt with golden panther and silver tennis, overwhelmed by her customers, her employees including Patrick (Michel Fau) and the dog Pépette. "How did you come today, Mrs. Vinard?" She asks. "By electric scooter! "Proclaims Line Renaud.
This is also a way of bringing replicas up to date in this fiction that producer Franck Saurat (Carson Prod) had the idea for. "We worked six months with Muriel Robin to tell a story, find links because it will not be a succession of sketches, insists his collaborator, Jean-Philippe Lemonnier. She has been involved 1000% in everything from the script to the casting which brings together stars she loves and of all generations. "
From Jean Reno to Vanessa Paradis, Charlotte Rampling, Ary Abittan, Sylvie Testud or Pierre Palmade, 45 personalities - film stars, comedians and animators - will be brought together. “A popular chic mix, predicts Muriel Robin amazed. I dared not ask Vanessa Paradis because I still don't feel legitimate. She said to me: playing Patricia is so cult! We no longer know who gives the gift to the other! I just have to direct and pamper my actors ”. And she admits: "I love it".
