2023-05-05 20:46:00
It is the incomprehension and the consternation among the always very numerous fans of More beautiful life despite the end of the series. Michel Cordes, alias Roland Marci, the owner of the Mistral, was found dead at his home in Hérault this Friday, May 5. It’s the Free lunch who gave the information first. According to The Parisian, who obtained confirmation of the news from the town hall of Grabels where the 77-year-old actor resided, he would have left a letter, which suggests a suicide. An investigation was opened by the gendarmerie to confirm or invalidate the hypothesis.
Michel Cordes was the pillar of Plus belle la vie. He was present in the series from the first episode and his bar, the Mistral, was the hub of all the stories and intrigues imagined by the authors of the successful France 3 soap opera. Parisianhe had recently explained that his fifty years of work in comedy – mainly in the theater before Plus belle la vie – were beginning to weigh on him. “I had imagined that I would distance myself, not that the soap opera stops.”
The writers, they, had killed his character shortly before the end of the broadcast of the series. Victim of a heart attack. The decision taken by the production had not been a surprise for the actor. “It didn’t surprise me that much. Many people told me that Roland was the emblematic character of the series. Hubert Besson, who helped make PBLV, said that he was the ‘totemic’ character of the soap opera. of the series. So, if we remove the tribe, we cut down the totem. I experienced it like that in any case. It seems quite logical to me in the end”he confided to Allociné.
PBLV is it definitely over?
Logical but no less moving all the same. “I shot Roland’s death a week before quitting. But I must say that the day of the last sequence was something. When the whole team applauds you for 10 minutes, it stirs. It is eighteen years of adventure this series.”
He had also confided that he was ready to shoot in a series that would be inspired by More beautiful life. As we know, a certain number of actors, members of the technical teams and others immediately set to work so that the series continued elsewhere than on France Télévisions. We talked about a presence on the Web, the names of TF1 and M6 have also been mentioned without anything happening to date. With the death – real this one, unfortunately – of the interpreter of Roland Marci, emblematic, historical and central character, what will happen to the project? Especially since he already seemed very compromised when we learned of the destruction of the original sets of the soap opera, including the famous Mistral…
Who is Michael Cordes?
Who is hiding behind the character of Roland Marci that all fans of Plus belle la vie know so well? Michel Cordes bathed in comedy since his earliest childhood. But his dream was the Fine Arts. Alas, for his parents, it was out of the question. He then turned to the theater and passed through the conservatory of that of Montpellier where he took lessons. He makes it his job. It is also on the boards that he has spent most of his career. He also wrote a few plays and served as artistic director.
From 1984, he extended his field of action. For the cinema, he shot 11 films. He appears in The Hussar on the roof by Jean-Paul Rappeneau, Didier by Alain Chabat, A matter of taste by Bernard Rapp and under the sand by Francois Ozon.
It is especially on television that we have seen it a lot, well before Plus belle la vie. He appears in 42 TV movies. Maybe not the most prominent programs but he made up for it well with More beautiful life. Between 2004 and January 2022, when his name disappeared from the credits of the series, 2,400 episodes were boxed and 12 prime time broadcast.
The coin had a reverse, however. With his recurring character, Michel Cordes was no longer available for other shoots. Even if at the end of the first ten years of More beautiful life, he had asked the production to minimize the appearances of Roland in the episodes and that this one had become a secondary role, the label of “Marseillais of service” which some had decked out closed doors to him. He was kind of a prisoner of his character.
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