"I was hiding a bit" : Philippe Lacheau confides his embarrassment to direct Gérard Jugnot

Philippe Lacheau may be recognized in his field, he has already been intimidated by the monsters of the big screen that he has played: Gérard Jugnot in particular.

While his film Alibi.com 2 is about to hit theaters this February 8, Philippe Lacheau is on all the sets. After the success of the first Alibi.com in 2017 but also Baby sitting, his first film in two parts, the director has become a personality on the French big screen. To discuss this career and its topicality, he was the guest this Saturday of Sophie Davant on M Radio in Nice to meet you, a program in which the host receives a personality from French song, television or cinema. The 42-year-old man, accustomed to having friends of his band play like Élodie Fontan – with whom he has been in a relationship since 2015, Tarek Boudali or even Reem Kherici, has this time also surrounded himself with less close actors of him to whom he had a certain admiration.

“Sometimes I’m a little embarrassed”

In effect, Alibi.com 2 brings together members of Fifi’s Band And big names from the previous generation of cinema like Didier Bourdon, Nathalie Baye or even Gerard Jugnot… A prestigious cast that intrigued Sophie Davant. “They said yes right away, However, assured Philippe Lacheau before expressing his pride. I’m very, very proud because it’s the first film in which Gérard Jugnot and Didier Bourdon are together on screen. I am very proud to have brought together a member of the Splendid and the Inconnus, especially since it is a bit like my cinema dads for me. Fathers to whom it was sometimes embarrassing to say everything we thought, then explained in detail Philippe Lacheau. “We have a sense of humor that sometimes goes a little far to try to get outbursts of laughter. And so sometimes I’m a little embarrassed. And so that’s why, I don’t talk to them about it on the phone, I send them an email: ‘Read the script, read the scene’.”

“Who am I ?”

If he described Didier Bourdon and Nathalie Baye as “monsters of cinema”, Philippe Lacheau evoked a special bond with Gérard Jugnot about which he told an anecdote. “Gérard, we’ve wanted to work together again for a long time. Baby sitting“, had first specified the director. The cinema icon had indeed played in his first film released in 2014. Beginnings which the star remembers with precision: “He fascinated me so much that I remember the filming of Baby sitting, when Gérard arrived on the set. In fact I said to myself ‘but I will never dare to ask him to redo a take. Because who am I? I have never made a film. He is the monster of the cinema that we know. I’m never going to say to him ‘Gérard, can you do me like that again because it didn’t suit me’. SO I was hiding behind the others saying: ‘can’t you go and tell him to do it again like this or like that?’. Now I’m more comfortable.” finally reassured the director.