This Thursday, December 29, 2022 at 9:10 p.m., TF1 is offering Just a gigolo, a comedy directed by Olivier Baroux with Kad Merad in the lead role. And the script might sound familiar to you if you’ve seen the American comedy, released two years earlier (but somewhat overlooked), of which this film is the remake.
How to be happy and rich without working? This is the question answered by Alex, the hero of Just a gigolo broadcast on Thursday December 29, 2022 at 9:10 p.m. on TF1. This film is directed by Olivier Baroux, one of the kings of comedy in France who was a hit at the box office with RRRrrr!!!, which had attracted more than 1.5 million spectators in theaters despite harsh reviews, with Neuilly his mother !and also (and above all) with the saga The Tuches. To embody Alex, this old man forced to reconnect with his old job as an escort-boy after his wife left him, he chose his faithful sidekick Kad Merad, who has changed a lot since his debut.
Just a gigolo : Kad Merad and Olivier Baroux reunited again
This is not the first time that Kad Merad has found his lifelong accomplice. Together they shot in the movies But who killed Pamela Rose? and A ticket to space, under the direction of director Eric Lartigau. As a director, Olivier Baroux has several times entrusted the main role of his films to Kad Merad, notably in Safari, on the set of which the actor had a big glitch, in Italian and therefore in Just a gigolo. And the least we can say is that he did not spare him by dressing him up with a bob haircut and asking him to gain twelve kilos for the role of this old handsome, probably to resemble the original model as much as possible.
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When Kad and O revisit an American film that went unnoticed when it was released
Because you may not know it, but Just a gigolo is the remake of an American film released in 2017 and, let’s face it, went unnoticed despite its cast bringing together Salma Hayek, Rob Lowe (who also plays a firefighter in the series 9-1-1: Lone Star), Kristen Bell or Raquel Welch. His title : How to be a latin lover. The scenario is exactly the same, since it tells the story of an ex-gigolo who returns to service after being left by his wife. And it must be recognized that Kad Merad strongly resembles actor Eugenio Derbez, the main actor of the Hollywood feature film…
