Available on Prime Video, the comedy series True Story welcomes prestigious guests who deliver extraordinary anecdotes. Among them, the actress Isabelle Adjani tells how she convinced Gérard Depardieu to play with her.
The True Story comedy series is back on the Prime Video platform for a new round of episodes full of crazier stories than the last. In this second season, always exceptional guests, from Pierre Niney to Teddy Riner, via Adèle Exarchopoulos and Tony Parker, took their places on the set in front of influencers captivated by their anecdotes.
Among the celebrities featured in the show, actress Isabelle Adjani confides in the third episode on a surprising evening spent in the company of her colleague Gérard Depardieu. In front of her, Emy Ltr and Gaelle Garcia Diaz cannot believe their ears!
A night with Depardieu or a scene from a horror film?
It is an evening that she will certainly not soon forget… In the second season of True Story, Isabelle Adjani tells about a hectic night in a dismal inn worthy of a real horror film. At the end of the 80s, when she was about to shoot in Camille Claudel by Bruno Nuytten, the actress could only imagine one person giving her the answer in the role of the sculptor Rodin: Gérard Depardieu.
This one is filming in the north of France, Isabelle Adjani therefore decides to visit him to try to convince him. What is not his surprise when he arrives in Montreuil-sur-Mer to discover the place where the actor resides, a sort of inn in the hands of two unwelcoming landladies, where squeaks, creaks and other noises are constantly heard. sinister.
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When Depardieu finds her, still dressed in the cassock and the studded soles of his seminarian character in Under the Sun of Satan, he invites her into his room and explains that he never takes off his costume, “Even to sleep” specifies the actress. As if inhabited by the role he plays in Maurice Pialat’s film, he offers Adjani a pseudo-exorcism session, interrupted by a general power cut.
Night walk in the forest
The actor then takes him on a 4×4 trip in the nearby forest, where the two actors then walk on muddy paths. A little tipsy, Gérard Depardieu addresses the trees and the spirits to know if he should accept the role in Camille Claudel. On their return to the inn, the two fall asleep on the sofas in the dining room.
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This totally crazy night nevertheless seems to have sealed their friendship and convinced Depardieu to play Rodin, since he will appear in Bruno Nuytten’s film in 1987.
(Re) discover this anecdote in its entirety and many more right now in True Story on Prime Video.
