She has just finished filming a fictional testament for France Télévisions, Le Prochain Voyage, which has as its theme the end of life, her ultimate battle. Line Renaud the famous magazine leader, the singer of My cabin in Canada composed by her dear Loulou Gasté, the mother of Dany Boon in Welcome to the Ch’tis celebrates her 95th spring on Sunday July 2.
This last film, where she shares the poster with the seductive actor Jean Sorel, could well be the last of her career. In an interview granted to our colleagues from RTL, the one who is now nicknamed the favorite grandmother of the French, knows that this role of an eternal lover wishing to die on the same day as her childhood sweetheart represents in her eyes the most beautiful farewells to the scene: “There, I will stop, frankly. I’m going to make another film perhaps with Dominique Besnehard, where I’ll play Line Renaud. This will be a story about journals. And it’s going to be called Ca c’est Paris. So I will play my role”.
Line Renaud sings Ma p’tite folie
Popular singer in the noblest sense of the term, the interpreter of My little madness has always kept a strong taste for the seventh art. From 1946, at the age of 18, she can be seen in Pierre Chenal’s The Chimera Fair. A few years later she played La Madelon by Jean-Pierre Boyer. And it is obviously Dany Boon who immortalizes her in his cult film Welcome to the Ch’tis in 2008. Resuming her accent from the north of France, she portrays the mother of Antoine Bailleul, the hero of this comedy which dethroned The Big Mop at the hexagonal box office.
Line Renaud, who does not pay into nostalgia, knows that today, that all this already belongs to her story: “You must not do something against your will, continues the actress. We must not make the film too much. So there won’t be too much film. Cinema is over, but not life. Cinema is not life. Come on, Line, to please us, on this anniversary day, give us a last touch of madness, a last grain of fantasy…
