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"Everyone was vomiting, it was atrocious": Vincent Desagnat recounts the chaotic filming of the 11 commandments

2023-04-21T16:11:17.883Z


FIGARO LIVE – Guest on the set of “Buzz TV”, the actor, who presents the game “Frogger” on Gulli, returned to the 2004 film which became cult and embodied with his acolytes from “Morning Live”, Michaël Youn and Benjamin Morgana.


From this Saturday, April 22, in the first part of the evening,

Vincent Desagnat

finds his sidekick Benjamin Morgaine to present "

Frogger

", a game imported from the United States.

In disguise, they comment on the American version.

"

It's one of the greatest arcade games of the 1980s

", recalls the actor on the set of "Buzz TV" this Friday.

I don't know who had the idea of ​​adapting it to life-size television, but it's been a formidable obstacle course

,” he says again.

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It was in the early 2000s that the general public discovered him, as an accomplice of Michaël Youn in "Morning Live".

Together, and with Benjamin Morgaine to compose the infernal trio, they will do the 400 blows and will even try their hand at parody songs with the groups Bratisla Boys then Fatal.

Their film

The 11 Commandments

, a kind of French

Jackass

released in 2004 and which attracted almost 3 million people to the cinema, it has become cult.

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Twenty years later, what authority does this eternal teenager have over his three children?

"

I'm really not the same person at home.

I am a fair dad and I can be authoritarian

”, assures us Vincent Desagnat who waited several years before showing his work to his two eldest.

They will learn about it “

through friends and girlfriends at school

”.

One day, my daughter came home and she said to me: 'we have to talk'

”, recalls the person concerned with amusement.

“My films hurt my daughter for a very long time”

Vincent Desagnat

And to clarify that his films have always amused his 13-year-old son while his daughter is much less of a fan.

My 17-year-old took a long time.

I often played victim characters in the cinema and it bothered him for a very long time.

She didn't like seeing her father in this situation.

Today, she laughs about it

, ”explains Vincent Desagnat.

According to Vincent Desagnat, the filming of The

11 Commandments

turned out to be chaotic.

"

It's both an incredible memory and at the same time the worst of my career

", sums up this skateboarding enthusiast.

At issue: weightless flights filmed in Russia.

Physically, it was horrible.

They were parabolic flights to be able to be weightless, in a huge plane, with three meters of ceiling height in the cabin.

It skyrocketed so we crashed to the ground.

You also take four jets and weigh four times your weight.

Afterwards, the plane nosedived so we took four jets.

We did that for 1h30”

, he recalls, adding that he left “

emptied”.

Everyone was vomiting, it

“, he still remembers.

And what's more, we were yelled at by the Russian soldiers because we were dressed in tutu!

".

The 11 commandments

has become over time his "

visiting card

".

“I

am happy to have been part of this madness

”, he concludes.

Source: lefigaro

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