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Jean-Claude Lagniez, the taste for risk

2021-04-26T20:22:51.103Z


PORTRAIT - Between car racing and film stunts, this outstanding driver has endured and left his mark on these two disciplines. He publishes his memoirs and prepares a biopic on Alain Prost.


He was Roger Moore in

James Bond

.

He provoked the drama of Les

Petits Mouchoirs

.

His chase in

Memory in the Skin

won him the World Stunt Award, the Oscar for stuntmen.

"I missed the Caesar but saw what happened there this year ..."

, jokes the person concerned.

In its offices in the south of Paris, the coffee table is a Bridgestone F1 tire.

The workshops are a museum of cinema.

We recognize the 1937 Bugatti Atlantic from

Overdrive

driven by Scott Eastwood, one of Clint's sons, between Cassis and Marseille.

The 4L is that of

Nothing to Declare

.

The police vans of

36 Quai des Orfèvres.

"Don't ask me how I got them, these things don't sell."

This tall fellow is sympathetic, frank and direct.

Jean-Claude, he's from the old school.

He embodies a certain image of cinema,

”testifies the director Olivier Marchal.

"

He is discreet while he is a luminary,

" adds filmmaker Frédéric Schoendoerffer.

At 73, Jean-Claude Lagniez

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Source: lefigaro

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