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“I did around thirty tackles!” : rugby player David Gleizes plays in TV spot for vaccination

2021-06-16T23:15:03.386Z


The former three-quarter center of the Meaux rugby club, David Gleizes, is at the heart of one of the television campaigns for vaccination


Is it him or isn't it him?

All those who know David Gleizes, the former three-quarter center of the Meaux rugby club, have asked themselves the question when they came across the television spot in favor of the vaccination campaign against the Covid-19.

And it is he, this player who, after having laced his crampons, runs towards his friend, very happy to find him, before inflicting a terrible tackle.

At 42, the Georges-Tauziet stadium goalkeeper still has the singing accent of his native Southwest. It is for this work and for rugby that he "climbed" in the early 2000s, from Castres (Tarn) to Meaux, then in Federal 2, the fourth national division. It is also in the changing rooms of the current Rugby club of the Pays de Meaux that the indoor scene was shot. Even the vaccinodrome scene was captured in “the mini-club”, the stadium clubhouse.

"I played in the CO

(Editor's note: Castres Olympique)

until Espoirs ... and despair, jokes that he is today the coach of the Meldoise reserve team.

When I was 23, they told me: no, let's stop.

»After a stint in Graulhet (Federal 1), he will then make Meaux happy on the pitch for fifteen years, indisputable in the center or on the wing.

He even became a pillar of the club, outside of the green rectangle.

"My arm was all blue ... but I really enjoyed myself!"

The years have passed.

The legs go less quickly, but David Gleizes still sometimes plays in team B, converted number 8 among the “big ones”, the forwards, those who have their heads in the fray.

At the time of filming, in April 2021, the sturdy fellow weighed 116 kilos.

It is undoubtedly his “muscular” physique which earned him the role.

Yet he was not a candidate for anything.

“One day the production team came to take pictures at the stadium.

They wanted a slightly dated visual, at least amateurish looking, he recalls.

I was there, I opened the locker rooms for them.

And then they asked me if they could take a picture of me.

And then another day, they phoned me and they said to me:

we took you for the casting

.

I told them:

but I did not apply

.

And they answered me:

yes, but you are taken!

"

“I was asked to gain more and more momentum.

The actor was starting to get fed up ”

Experience - paid - cannot be refused.

With the main actor in the front line physique, two extras and three others, sometimes chosen from the street, he left to take PCR tests.

Then comes the day of filming, April 28, 2021.

“At the beginning, it was not me who tackled, remembers David Gleizes.

A guy dumped it anyhow ... Then the producer decided it would be me.

I chained about thirty tackles!

He was asking me to gain more and more momentum.

The actor was starting to get fed up.

I was told to take it slow, so each time I amortized it.

He also had enough

cushioning

, laughs David Gleizes.

Two days later, all was well for him.

Me, my arm was all blue ... but I really enjoyed it!

"

A television notoriety that makes him smile

Since appearing on TV, David Gleizes has received hundreds of messages from friends and former teammates, sometimes facetious.

In their line of sight, this magnificent tackle on the legs, not really in the habits of the player who was the three-quarter center before the change of rule occurred in the amateur environment - tackle prohibited above the belt - there is a few years.

“I'm getting

cut off

all over the place,” he laughs.

It had to be me when I had to tackle my legs three times in 20 years of rugby, ”he laughs.

There is also this little "can" molded into the jersey, which is talked about.

"It's the camera", answers David Gleizes not without humor, which he handles at the minute.

This little television notoriety, different from the one he had at the time as a player, he takes it with a smile. “It's great, but it's just an advertisement for the vaccine,” he puts into perspective. I didn't advertise with Zidane, I didn't do the

Avengers

. He's just a guy who takes a tampon but is happy. Rugby is the winner ... and vaccination! "

Source: leparis

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