INTERVIEW
It's an improbable class photo. In the 1960s, at the Montcel estate, the boarding school of a college in Yvelines, rubbed shoulders with young boys who were unaware that they would soon be - all for different reasons - more anonymous. Jean-Michel Ribes rubbed shoulders with the future painter Gérard Garouste, the future Nobel Prize for literature Patrick Modiano, the future mayor of Levallois-Perret Patrick Balkany and the future singer Michel Sardou - just that! Guest of Il there is not only one life in the life, Sunday on Europe 1, the first named returns on this time.
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Michel Sardou "made the wall"
"Michel was an incredible guy," recalls Jean-Michel Ribes of Sardou. "He made the wall, jumped over all conventions, broke the mouth of the secretary general, he was fired." It was also at home that the future actor attended his "first surprise party". "I remember, I must have been 13 or 14. (...) He is someone I love very much."
It was at Montcel that Jean-Michel Ribes, current director of the Rond-Point theater in Paris, discovered comedy. "The trestle company from France came to give performances," he says. The young boy is then caught up in the urge to play. "We don't decide, it's something that comes slowly. It's contagious. I couldn't help it, it's like suddenly we were asked when we started walking. .. "
"I'm glad we went to Venice"
From these pension years, Jean-Michel Ribes also retains a certain aversion for the countryside, to which he prefers the city. "I am not against nature," he poses. "We absolutely have to save the planet and plant millions of trees every day, of course. But still, I still believe that if we only loved nature we would have stayed in caves. And I'm glad we went to Venice, to the artificial, to the invention. "