INTERVIEW
Gérard Depardieu, Patrick Dewaere, Miou-Miou. What if the trio on display at Valseuses, by Bertrand Blier, had been completely different? According to Chantal Ladesou, guest of Isabelle Morizet Saturday on Europe 1, the casting for the main female role of the film, released in 1974, could have turned otherwise ... if she had acceded to the requests of the production team.
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"I repacked everything and I told that to Depardieu"
The cast was the first of Chantal Ladesou, then anonymous, in Paris. "I was asked to take off my bra and my t-shirt," she says in There is not only one life in life . The actress refused, offering to show a photo of her chest. "It is not a picture of your breasts that I want to see, it is your breasts living on camera," he was told.
So Chantal Ladesou refused. "I repacked everything and I told [Gérard] Depardieu that," she recalls. "He said, 'You just have to show them to me now!'." If it is impossible to know how the casting would have gone if it had not turned short, the actress readily admits that she would not have "perhaps not had the role anyway". And to add about Miou-Miou, finally chosen: "She was great."