Propelled to the forefront by her unforgettable incarnation of Marie-Thérèse in
Life is a long quiet river, Catherine Jacob marked French cinema from the end of the 1980s. This performance earned her the César for Most Promising Actress in 1988 and opened the way to a rich trajectory, between the big screen and the small screen. Over the years, the actress has had a series of projects, notably appearing in several episodes of Tomorrow belongs to uswhere she lent her features to the mother of Kamel Belghazi and the grandmother of the character played by Emma Smet.
Today, Catherine Jacob meets the public at the theater. She is on display in drunken nightthe play written by Josiane Balasko, currently performed at the Théâtre de la Madeleine. On stage, she shares the bill with Philippe Lellouche. Both were reunited on the set of
C to youthis Tuesday, February 3, to talk about this highly anticipated cover, alongside Alexandre Jardin, who came to present his new work.
Philippe Lellouche assumes his choice and defends the popular show
Invited to speak about his participation in Dancing with the starsPhilippe Lellouche did not evade criticism and delivered a very personal reflection on his relationship with the artistic world. “I’m going to be 60 years old. In recent years, for reasons that would take a long time to explain, the snobbery that surrounds some of my colleagues horrifies me. And I suddenly said to myself, having this ultimately somewhat snobbish hesitation, I’m going to be like those I hate. And I am absolutely not ashamed, and I even claim, to do popular things. For me, popular is something very noble.“
The actor fully asserts this choice, seeing in the show a legacy of the great television shows that made him dream as a child. “Dancing with the Stars takes up this tradition in the sense that it’s a real show, where everyone mixes. I saw Alain Delon singing with Dalida, I thought it was very good. Well, today I’m going to dance with Marcus who I didn’t know. It also allows me to get in touch with kids whose existence I was completely unaware of. And I discover a wonderful universe. And I think about doing my job, that is to say putting on a show“.
Catherine Jacob makes a clear decision and closes the door to the show
Taking advantage of this passionate declaration, Anne-Elisabeth Lemoine turned to Catherine Jacob to question her about possible future participation. “Did that convince you, Catherine? Are you going to go there next year?“A hypothesis quickly brushed aside by the actress, very direct:”Everyone has their own thing. I have a certain sense of survival. And I know I can’t dance. So why go there?“
Despite the insistence of the host, who tries to reassure her: “But it can be learned! On a foxtrot, Catherine Jabob and her partner Alexandre Jardin..”, the answer falls, without appeal: “no no“. A response that pushes Anne-Elisabeth Lemoine to immediately move on to another sequence.
