If the year 2024 was particularly auspicious on a professional level for , it was terrible on a personal level. Particularly prolific in cinema, the 73-year-old actor has appeared in three films, including Ducobu passe au vert of and We should have gone to Greece by Nicolas Benamou. We also saw him on television and obviously the French love him. In a survey commissioned by Paris Matchhe comes at the top of France’s favorite comedians, just ahead of his friend from Splendid, , completing the podium. “No way !”, retorts the person concerned when asked if he expected to finish first, before adding: “I’m delighted, obviously, it means that we are still in people’s hearts. It’s quite a reward. I take it as a Legion of Honor, an honorary Caesar, an honorary Bravo!”
Obviously very enthusiastic, Gérard Jugnot loses his smile when discussing a subject that touches him enormously, the disappearance on October 3 of his lifelong friend, . Since this tragedy, the actor is no longer really the same, he who has not. For Paris Matchthe actor looks back on the void that the actor, passed away at only 72 years old following a heart attack following an anaphylactic shock, left. “There is a big lackbecause there was absolute complicity between us in the valve. We laughed less when we all gathered at the church for his funeral. Even if we tried to laugh about it a little. But what surprised me was, once again, the reaction of the public: we felt an immeasurable pain in France. How many times in the street people have offered me their condolences…”testifies Gérard Jugnot.
Michel Blanc, a destiny at Coluche for Gérard Jugnot
An unexpected disappearance for . “A scary allergy to an antibiotic, it happens once in a million. And it fell on him”despairs Gérard Jugnot, before making a comparison with the tragic fate of another illustrious humorist: “It’s like when he left. Why this truck? Why he didn’t wear a helmet to ride his motorcycle. Why did Michel take this medication? We don’t know. Life is wonderful, very strange and terrible at the same time. In fact, I think we shouldn’t die.”
Strong words from Michel Blanc’s great friend, still very affected by his disappearance.
