• In

    The last part

    , broadcast on TF1 this Monday evening, Franck Dubosc plays a Parisian lawyer who reconnects with his father when he has decided to be euthanized.

    The screenplay is inspired by the story of the actor whose father, suffering from Charcot's disease, died in 2002.

  • “This desire to talk about my father has followed me for a long time.

    I had to be ready.

    And then, ten years ago, I would not have been given the credit of making an entire film on the end of my father's life, ”Franck Dubosc advances to

    20 Minutes

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  • “I made a lot of 'plastic' characters, of which you could almost make little figurines. Today, I want to embody characters who look a little more like everyone, ”says Franck Dubosc.

We know the extrovert and comical Franck Dubosc very well.

With

The Last Part

, broadcast this Monday at 9:05 pm on TF1, he shows a more sensitive, serious and unknown facet of his personality.

In this TV movie, he plays a lawyer about to receive the Legion of Honor learning that his father (played by Guy Marchand), seriously ill, chose the day of the ceremony to die.

The two men then have little time to reconnect and reconcile.

This fiction is directly inspired by what lived the actor and humorist whose dad, suffering from Charcot's disease, resorted to euthanasia in 2002. Open-hearted interview.

What motivated you to star in a fiction inspired by your life?

Even if it means making films, I prefer to talk about things that I know. This desire to talk about my father has followed me for a long time. I had to be ready. And the public also had to be ready for me to bring something that wasn't just funny. Maybe it was the right time. You never really digest the departure of a parent, but I am now a dad, I have children who are old enough to say “I love you”. So maybe that's a way to come full circle, to tell my dad that I love him, even though I didn't do it for real. And then, ten years ago, I wouldn't have been given the credit of making an entire film about the end of my father's life. In addition, television is focusing more and more on social subjects like that, more human.

You spoke in the media about Charcot's disease from which your father suffered and how he chose his death. Are there any scenes in “The Last Part” that are all the same as what you've been through?

There are a lot of things that are true, lots of little details that I no longer remember having entrusted to the screenwriter [Jean-André Yerles]. The Scrabble part is real. The last part played with my father… It all started from there. I had played knowing it was the last. I said to myself, "Do I let him win or not?" And I had decided to let it go. During this scene, I ask him to talk about what he really thinks. That was done in real life, without words, through our eyes, the evening before he died. We didn't need to tell each other. There is also the scene where I leave and where he is on the balcony: not knowing when you can allow yourself to look away, how long to look at a person for the last time ... It's very guilty.Since the TV movie was announced, I have received a lot of messages from people who knew him and who say to me: “Have no fear, he was proud of you. It took twenty years for someone to tell me.

You were just talking about the fact that audiences have to be ready to see you in a dramatic role.

Do you want to discuss this register more frequently in the future?

I wouldn't say that my role in the TV movie is dramatic, it's more the situation that is less "funny".

I like both, I also like to make people laugh.

In fact, in

The last part

, sometimes we start to smile.

I want to be fun less and move towards moving roles in real stories.

I made a lot of "plastic" characters, of which you could almost make little figurines.

Today, I want to play characters who look a bit more like everyone else.

How did the shooting go with Guy Marchand?

I love Guy Marchand.

My father adored him.

It is a relief and even very strange to say that my father is played by an actor he loved.

This is also the first thing I said to my mother, who was still alive when we started shooting: "It's Guy Marchand who is going to play dad!"

".

I don't know if it was very clear to her, even though she was in her head.

Me, next to him, I had the impression of being a young actor who listens and who savor all his anecdotes.

You can imagine, at 83, lying in a coffin, you have to dare!

Throughout the shoot, Guy would say “I'm repeating my death”.

And I was wondering if, at the same age, I would dare that ...

How did your mother react when she heard about this TV movie project?

I don't think she said anything, like someone who says nothing because he suspects he won't see the result.

On my last two films, she asked a lot fewer questions than before.

As if she knew she would stop before they left, like it didn't concern her anymore.

It was very strange.

The question she always asked me is "when is it coming out?"

".

She didn't ask me that time.

[She passed away in February.]

You draw attention to the modesty of a father towards his son.

In "The Last Part", your character suffers.

What message do you want to send to men, fathers and sons?

It's quite an era.

I think that today, we ended up trivializing the "I love you".

My kids are 11 and 9, and when they hang up the phone, they tell me.

Afterwards, remember that you have to say I love you before it is too late, this message, everyone has already received it.

You just have to tell yourself that it doesn't hurt, that it only does good.

When I fall out with someone, I often take the first step, because it is silly in the end.

There are things more important than arguing.

It's so much easier to love than to hate.

It eats away at us less, and here I speak for a parent as well as for friends, enemies.

We are so much more relieved to love.

This fiction is very moving, but it never falls into pathos, does not seek to be tearful.

Did you take care of it?

Yes, I paid attention to it.

Not so much not to confuse the public but because life is made like that.

We talk about the end of life, to say goodbye to the father, so if in addition we are in the pathos, it becomes redundant.

If you want to shed a little tear at the end, so much the better, it's the emotion that I love.

For me, a good time is as much laughing as crying.

Above all, we must not impose emotions, everyone receives what he wants to receive.

Through this fiction, do you want to plead for the right to die with dignity?

No, because everyone sees it in their own way.

It is very difficult to get into this debate.

Even those who are against the choice to die still agree on dying with dignity.

The only thing is that you have to legislate on this for the simple reason that you have to decide for yourself and that is not always possible.

Some families are torn apart.

Ultimately, it is the person concerned who should decide, but they are not always in a position to do so.

In my case, my father decided it himself.

But I do not take sides on that and even having lived these things, I do not have more an opinion of it.

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