Laurent Gerra deconfines himself with a TV movie, a gourmet almanac and a return on stage

In the world of cycling, we call it “

”.

It is a few hundred meters from his chalet in Lanslebourg, in the heart of the Maurienne valley, facing Mont-Cenis, that Laurent Gerra shot

, a TV movie directed by Eric Valette and broadcast by France 2 on November 17.

If he accepted the role of a cynical and misanthropic Swiss policeman, it is not for the geographical proximity but because it allowed him to show that he was as comfortable in the counter-jobs as in limitation.

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A few weeks before the start of the shootings, he warned the production that the dates fixed for the exteriors corresponded exactly to those of the peak of winter cold.

Disrupting the planned schedule proving to be an impossible mission, it was in a temperature of minus 27 degrees that the first scenes were produced.

“

” recalls Laurent Gerra.

Watching the rushes and discovering, in his eyes, the quality of the images in which we discover Snow, nevertheless warmed his heart.

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This week is also the week of the release of

(November 18 at Cherche-Midi). He combines recipes dear to his palate with memories linked to his art of living well, where laughter is systematically present. “

He said.

He gives, among other things, the recipe for cream chicken - his favorite dish - found in his grandmother's notebooks.

An exceptional cook, she would have been able to compete with some of the chefs to whom he pays a friendly tribute, from Georges Blanc to Marc Veyrat via Guy Savoy, Bernard Loiseau and Paul Bocuse.

It evokes, in particular the hoaxes of the latter and does not fail to add a more personal touch of humor, through counterpeats of which, of course, it does not give the solution.

It's up to the reader to find out!

Memories with Clint Eastwood, Jean-Pierre Marielle and Jean-Paul Belmondo

To the evocation of his family are added encounters with that of the show. He tells, among other things, how he slipped into Clint Eastwood's ear the recipe for “

” frogs

, and remembers a lunch with Jean-Paul Belmondo and Jean-Pierre Marielle so watered that the two the actors were unable to go that same evening to the Lumière Institute where they were to be honored.

Dialogues from mythical films, starting with Les Tontons flingueurs and La grande bouffe mingle with Molière's Avare, Proust's madeleine, Neapolitan macaroni according to Alexandre Dumas, and the wedding meal of Bérurier, narrated by Frédéric Dard . “

»Assures Gerra who also brings together popular regional sayings, explanations of the origins of certain expressions, such as«

»and a quote from Jacques Chirac taking a stand for the protection of the calf's head. "

", he adds, recalling his love for the decorations which have been awarded to him and which, in his eyes, are worth all the Legions of honor of the world: the Agricultural Merit and the Medal of Knight of the Commanderie des Côtes-Du-Rhône.

He feasts in advance by thinking of the after-show evenings he will spend in country inns or starred restaurants, throughout a tour that resumes this week, after two years of silence. About fifty dates are planned in France, with detours, in Paris, through the Olympia and the Salle Pleyel. During confinement, he wrote a parody of

Bootie, targeted at our governors, a sketch where he imitates Jean Castex and an affectionate and nostalgic tribute to Jean-Paul Belmondo, Jean-Pierre Marielle and Claude Brasseur. Eternal child at heart, he found himself an accomplice of his age, in the person of Célestine, his 15-month-old daughter, to whom he dedicated his gourmet almanac. "

".

The succession is assured.