During his passage through Can’t wait for Sunday broadcast on France 3 on January 1, 2023, Michel Boujenah made an incredible and terrible revelation to Michel Drucker concerning the shooting of the film Three men and a basket, released in 1985.
With a CV as full as his, Michel Boujenah has seen all the colors during the filming of films or during his performances at the theater. In 1985, the one who had a surprising sentimental affair with a friend of his mother received a César for his role in the cult comedy Three men and a bassinet from Coline Serreau. Nevertheless, a personal problem may have had its share of responsibility behind this coronation. At least that’s what he explained on the set of Michael Drucker when he came to Can’t wait for Sunday this January 1, 2023.
filming accident
On this film, the nappies were Michel Boujenah’s work companions, in every sense of the word. While her character had to learn to pamper, the actor who has a strange nocturnal habit was himself forced to wear them because ofa serious accident that occurred just before, during the filming of the film The trip to Paimpol John Berry. “In this film, Irma has dreams. In a dream, she dreams that I am a Russian revolutionary. I am running down a corridor of the metro in Paris. I have two very sympathetic soldiers of the Tsar who stop me. We repeat, everything is fine”, he said. Only here, nothing happens as planned during the shooting since one of the two actors carried the gun differently. This then targets the private parts of Michel Boujenah. “At the time, it hurt me, but it passed and I went home. At night, dead of pain, I call my father“, he recalled.
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An operation and diapers
Of the, heading to the emergency room where he is having surgery. The next day, Michel Boujenah starts shooting Three men and a bassinet. “We couldn’t cancel the shooting day, there was too much money involved. In the end, I have the diapers, because they have just operated on me“, explained the actor. Thus he was forced to stay in bed when the cameras were off and only got up to turn. But as the weeks passed, his condition improved. Nevertheless, the friend of the late Jean-Paul Belmondo could not resume his usual gait. “I can no longer make the film while walking because I started the film by duck walking so I had to continue. I had a Caesar because my balls hurt”he amused himself.
Article written in collaboration with 6medias.