LE FIGARO.-
How did you meet?
Guillaume CANET -
In the middle of the 1990s, a friend, Philippe Lefebvre, told me about a café that opens onto impasse du Trésor, in Paris, run by Alain Attal and Laurent Taïeb, his partner.
Moviegoers.
We sympathize.
We come to talk about
Lenny
, the film by Bob Fosse, with Dustin Hoffman, about the life of stand-up comedian Lenny Bruce.
We tell ourselves that there is no stand-up in France and since the waiters are all more or less apprentice actors, including a certain Franck Dubosc, they could try their luck.
We started to write texts.
On Wednesday evening, with a box and a microphone, we started playing in front of people who were just coming for a drink.
Alain ATTAL -
I had tried to make films but I didn't know how to go about it.
I became a café owner but the Treasury could take me elsewhere.
The servers were sometimes very bad servers but very good actors.
They were planting us when they landed a…
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