According to BFM TV, the French actor lost consciousness this Thursday evening at the Antoine theater in Paris. A rescue team arrived soon following.
It was for a few minutes that Valérie Lemercier fainted on stage, around 9 p.m. At the time of this fall, the spectators obviously thought of a staging planned in the play. It was then that another actress, Isabelle Gélinas, hastened to ask a technician to lower the curtain.
The public therefore had to wait, before being asked to leave the performance hall. According to BFM TV, the firefighters intervened for regarding thirty minutes, allowing relatives of the actress to give reassuring news. “She’s fine, she’s just very tired.”