Just as depicted in fiction, the filming of Small Handkerchiefs was an opportunity for its director, Guillaume Canet, to reunite his group of friends. Only, the general euphoria of the actors sometimes gave the filmmaker a hard time.
It was in 2010 that French spectators discovered the phenomenon thought, written and realized by Guillaume Canet, The Little Handkerchiefs. And the least we can say is that the adventures of this group of friends – carried by big names in cinema such as Gilles Lellouche, François Cluzet, Jean Dujardin, Marion Cotillard, Benoît Magimel or even Valérie Bonneton – were a real success at the box office! But however, the summer camp atmosphere between adults has its limits and it is not Guillaume Canet, who turns 49 this Monday, April 10, 2023, who will say the opposite. By giving an exclusive interview to our colleagues from the magazine FirstGuillaume Canet returned to difficulties encountered during filming who did not fail to put his nerves to the test!
Actors “in a bathing suit smoking firecrackers and drinking” all day
If some think it’s a real chance to collaborate with friends, Guillaume Canet, he keeps some bitter memories. And it’s in the columns of the magazine First that the director recalled: “My actors were in total carelessnessin a bathing suit, smoking firecrackers and drinking shots all day.“ If these working conditions make more than one dream, for the director it has not always been a cakewalk! “They were absolutely not in the discipline essential to the making of a film. Leading them was ultra complicated. I started talking to one and the other threw a valve. After a moment, I became execrable“, he confessed. But one day, the “valve“too many got the better of the calm of Guillaume Canet, who literally “broke a nerve“ !
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“We stop everything!”
Exasperated by the laxity of his actors, the young dad threw down his arms. “I said : ‘You know what ? You get away with it. Stop, we stop everything!’“, he revealed. But fortunately, everyone knew how to put water in their wine: “We had a real discussion and everyone told me what they thought, I cried a lot that night.” And we know the rest: 5.4 million spectators in dark rooms, a film that has become cult and above all, a second part – We’ll end up togetherreleased in 2019 – and as gripping and heartbreaking as the first!
Article written with the collaboration of 6Medias.
