At 95, Philippe Bouvard agreed to return to his life, his career and his meetings in an interview with Cyril Viguier broadcast on TV5 Monde Europe. He notably mentioned his memories of Louis de Funès.
He may hold the longest media career record. Philippe Bouvard officially fareweed on radio at the end of 2024, ten years after having had to give up his seat of Big heads to Laurent Ruquier, and after sixty years spent on the air. He was also a man of television and written press for decades. Listening to Philippe Bouvard telling his life, as offers TV5 Monde Europe by broadcasting an exclusive interview against Cyril Viguier, so it is a bit relive history. He rubbed shoulders with the biggest names of his time, whether presidents of the Republic or illustrious actors.
When Philippe Bouvard replied to Louis de Funès
During the interview broadcast on Saturday May 3, Philippe Bouvard notably mentioned his meeting with Louis de Funès, an exceptional actor with unforgettable facial expressions, and who still makes the French laugh over 40 years after his death. More than crossing into interviews, the two men collaborated. Philippe Bouvard had indeed agreed to play his own role in Wing or thigh. He was requested by Louis de Funès, who embodied the boss of a large culinary guide, to challenge a vile manufacturer of industrial food in a debate program. “He was a little crazy”recalls Philippe Bouvard. And if he considers that they were “friends”, He does not work his words on the character of the actor. “As he was a very important character, he had to speak to him in the third person”he quipped. “Some comics were little guys at all, and others took themselves for the navel in the world. I rather frequented the navel of the world”he added.
“He was not funny” : the secrets of Philippe Bouvard on Louis de Funès
Philippe Bouvard also recalled how the career of Louis de Funès was “bizarre”. Comic superstar still today, “At the start, he was an extremely serious and not very popular actor. For years, we barely be careful, and then one day, it became a huge star”. It was not until more than 40 years that Louis de Funès has experienced a real celebrity. First in the theater in Oscar, then at the cinema in Pouric in 1963, to which the first one will quickly succeed Saint-Tropez gendarme, Fantomas et Le Corniaud. Despite the immense comic talent of Louis de Funès, Philippe Bouvard remembers a man who on a daily basis “was not funny. He was a guy who was extremely unhappy, sick and whose comic was used to hide all of this”he explained. When filming Wing or thigh In 1976, the actor still recovered from a first infarction which had long weakened him, to the point that he had planned to stop the cinema. Despite these anxieties, “He was still a very endearing guy, because he embodied characters that no one else was able to hold on stage”said Philippe Bouvard.
Article written in collaboration with 6media.
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