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He was already absent from Great Bath (in 2018). While his friends Guillaume Canet and Benoît Poelvoorde were in the casting, Gilles Lellouche had chosen to stay behind the camera. Rebelote for Love phew. The director does not turn into an actor, even for an appearance or for a supporting role.
No Gilles Lellouche alongside Adèle Exarchopoulos, François Civil, Alain Chabat, Vincent Lacoste, Jean-Pascal Zadi, Élodie Bouchez, Karim Leklou and other Raphaël Quenard. For what ?
Is this a way for the director to install in the viewer's mind that there are two Gilles Lellouche : the filmmaker on one side and the star actor on the other? And that the two must never meet?
“One Lellouche is already a lot, so two is an overdose, right?” he answers in issue 556 of Première currently on newsstands, with Love phew on the cover. The filmmaker laughs and admits not having internalized the question as much:
“The truth is simpler than that: I take great pleasure in writing. And I don't project myself into the script at all. Designing a film requires a lot of energy… When I I think about it constantly 24 hours a day. When I eat, when I sleep, when I go out… My life is dedicated to this dream and you know what I'm never part of it? dream. I never see myself in the projects I imagine.”
Gilles Lellouche admits that we can find that “paradoxical” because he would be able to embody each person he writes. “Mbut there is something contradictory: I don't see myself in my own fantasies. I'm not passionate about myself. Or maybe I'm too passionate about other people. (Laughs.) Because one thing is certain: I take great pleasure in directing my actors.”
Love phew is currently available at the cinema.