A statement that caused quite a stir. Last April, comedian Blanche Gardin posted on Facebook a message explaining that she refused to participate in the fourth season of "LOL: who laughs comes out!" broadcast on Amazon Prime. "It also happens that I would be embarrassed (not to say that it would hurt my ass) to be paid 200,000 euros for a day's work even if I lose at your game, when the charity of my choice would win, it, 50,000 euros, that is to say four times less, and again, only if I win," she wrote.
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Following this publication, many voices were raised. "I didn't find it cool on his part, it casts a little shame on those who participated," said Ahmed Sylla who participated in season 2 of the program. "It's disgusting, she makes us look like bastards," added a former participant, on condition of anonymity.
Two films presented at Cannes
This Wednesday, May 17, Virginie Efira is invited by Yann Barthès to comment in turn on this statement. The host of "Quotidien" even extends his question to the recent position of Adèle Haenel to leave the film industry that she accuses of collaborating "with the deadly racist ecocide order of the world". The actress of Portrait of a Young Girl on Fire also condemns the Cannes Film Festival, which she describes as a den of "rapist leaders".
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"It doesn't sound very coherent, but I completely understand them," says Virginie Efira. Indeed, the actress who presents two films this year at the Cannes Film Festival also participated in the third season of "LOL: who laughs comes out!", won by Pierre Niney. "I rather have an admiration for people who manage to harmonize their values, their ideals to their way of life, it's not so common, it's quite rare," she adds. "I'm going to Cannes, I'm going to wear dresses on the red carpet, it's not the most shocking program for an actress, but is it with me that we're going to make the revolution... Not sure. And maybe we need it," says Virginie Efira on the set of "Quotidien".
"I didn't refuse the salary"
Regarding Blanche Gardin's letter, the actress remembers thinking that her colleague "is a thousand times funnier than me, which is not complicated, but she has a thousand times more virtue". "After, yes I did not refuse the salary, did I make an ultra-disgusting use, maybe not" still wants to specify the companion of Niels Schneider. She concludes with a touch of questioning: "It is also an ideal for me to accord its values to a way of life. So I try to do it, but it's weaker than them."
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