As it celebrates the tenth anniversary of its theatrical release, the film 20 years apart enjoy a second wind on netflix. In the honeyed atmosphere of Valentine’s Day, the film ranks fourth among the most watched films on the platform at the moment. As a reminder, the romantic comedy brings together Virginie Efira and Pierre Niney, who respectively play a mother, divorced, who works for a famous fashion magazine and a young student. The beautiful and ambitious Alice Lantins has everything to be the next editor-in-chief of Rebel. Everything, except her image of a stuck up woman. But when she meets a certain Balthazar, her boss’s outlook changes overnight. Believing to have found the key to get her promotion, she decides to take advantage of it to rejuvenate her image. But the idea of a false idyll will finally make her realize that Balthazar’s charm does not make her so indifferent. If the duo of actors was very complicit on the set, this did not prevent them from being particularly embarrassed during intimate scenes.
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“We had to forget our modesty“
Sex scenes in a film can be complex, taxing and sometimes very embarrassing for the actors. And it is not Pierre Niney and Virginie Efira who will say the opposite. In an interview given to Konbinithe actor had said that the filming of this scene had taken place on the first or second day of shooting. A quick way to break the ice. “I don’t know how they get along in the schedules, but it’s often at the very start of filming, when you don’t know the actress at all yet. It went very well in the end, and we had a good laugh and it was cool. But we had a real sex scene in bed, together, and it was day 1 or 2 big max. Very quickly, as we laughed together, it broke the ice“, he had explained, while his co-star had entrusted to Melty : “With Pierre Niney, it immediately stuck. He’s great and very funny. The shooting started with the love scenes, we had to forget our modesty. During the sex scene, I died laughing. Luckily he was there“.
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20 years apart : a strong comeback on Netflix
Released in 2013, the feature film had gathered more than a million spectators in dark rooms. Ten years later, the success of the romance is undeniable. In just a few days, 20 years apart has already made it into the Top 10 most-watched films on Netflix, just behind You at my house and vice versa, 2 hearts And Fiveanother film starring Pierre Niney who is enjoying a second life on the American platform.
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