INTERVIEW
In the dinner of idiots , he played a fickle and cynical husband, who organized dinners to make fun of people. In Les bronzés , he camped a flirty, unfaithful to the possible. Thierry Lhermitte has not always interpreted respectable people. But he may have rarely gone so far as in Happy retirement! , by Fabien Bracq, in theaters since Wednesday. The actor plays the role of a married grandfather with Michèle Laroque. The duo is a detestable couple, as the comedian Anne Roumanoff explained on Tuesday.
"We are absolutely infected grandparents"
It is besides "the spirit a little acid" of the scenario which seduced Thierry Lhermitte at the moment of saying "yes" for the project of Fabrice Bracq. "When you want to turn pages, it's a good criterion," he says. In Happy retirement! he wants to go with his wife to Portugal to enjoy their retirement. "But finally, they can not because my mother is sick and their daughter is separating," says the actor.
"We are absolutely infected grandparents who do not want to take care of their grandchildren, they are very selfish," says Thierry Lhermitte. "I had never done this type of character," says the actor, "there, he is really very loose." Thus, the couple does not hesitate to invent a story of incontinence to be able to be quiet ...