INTERVIEW
The legendary play They love each other , co-written by Muriel Robin and Pierre Palmade and performed in 1997 by the latter with Michèle Laroque, was a resounding success. Building on this triumph, the show gave rise to two suites and then to an adaptation in 2017 under the title They have loved each other for 20 years . A version of this last play, which tells the story of a lesbian couple played by Muriel Robin and Michèle Laroque, is broadcast on Saturday evening on France 2, at 11.45 p.m. (in partnership with Europe 1).
"If we wanted to replay the play, it was because we missed those moments. We never got tired of playing this show. We even communicated with our eyes about what was happening in the room ", remembers Michèle Laroque, interviewed by telephone in the Culture media program on Europe 1.
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"I find it great to tell the story of a lesbian couple"
The version broadcast by France 2 on Saturday evening is in fact a best-of of the best moments of the three shows performed by Michèle Laroque and Pierre Palmade, brought up to date with the story of a lesbian couple. "We thought it was great that Muriel Robin played both roles in the two versions, one with Pierre Palmade and one with me. I find it great to tell the story of a couple of women," says Michèle Laroque.
"It goes off in a lollipop like in everyone's life. Right now, it's gone on a lollipop (laughs). I love these moments of suspension where we no longer know what to say or how to get out of it" continues the actress, whose release of the next film, Each Home , originally scheduled for June, has been postponed due to the coronavirus.