the actor suffered anaphylactic shock, a “rare allergic reaction”

Prime Minister Michel Barnier, traveling this Friday to Puy-de-Dôme for the livestock summit, reacted to the disappearance of Michel Blanc.

“I was very moved and very sad by this brutal news. Especially since Michel Blanc is a wonderful actor, who made us laugh a lot sometimes and who moved us too.”

“I had the honor of decorating him with agricultural merit, when I was Minister of Agriculture, in 2008. He was very attached to production, to the land, to rurality”, also remembered Michel Barnier.

Dany Boon, who directed Michel Blanc in Raid Dingue, published a tribute to the actor on Instagram. He describes himself as a “big, lifelong fan of Michel Blanc”.

“He was an actor, an author, an exceptional director in both comedy and drama. A funny, intelligent and rare man who will be missed.”

Former Null Dominique Farrugia also paid tribute to Michel Blanc. The Splendid actor took part in the program Les Nuls The show in November 1991.

“We had a lot of fun together. Kisses to you Michel, wherever you are,” he wrote.

Tributes continue to pour in on social media. Franck Dubosc thus published a tribute in the form of a wink to Jean-Claude Dusse, a character with cult lines.

Director Fabien Onteniente also made an allusion to Jean-Claude Dusse and the famous scene of Tanned people go skiingwhere he is stuck on a chairlift.

According to our information, Michel Blanc suffered anaphylactic shock. He had a rare but serious allergic reaction, which led to anaphylactic shock, as well as angioedema.

According to initial information, it was a contrast product used during a medical examination which triggered this very brutal allergic reaction on Thursday afternoon.

Faced with the first symptoms, the doctor on site immediately called Samu, but when the rescuers arrived, Michel Blanc was already in cardiac arrest. He finally died at 11 p.m.

The Splendid troupe wrote a short press release in reaction to the death of their comrade Michel Blanc.

“La Troupe du Splendid Josiane Balasko, Marie-Anne Chazel, Christian Clavier, Gérard Jugnot, Thierry Lhermitte, Bruno Moynot, join together with one voice to express their immense pain following the death of their friend and companion Michel Blanc We warmly thank you for all your expressions of support and friendship. Thank you for respecting our silence and meditation.

Emmanuel Macron published a message on X, to pay tribute to Michel Blanc.

“He made us cry with laughter and moved us to tears. A monument of French cinema, Michel Blanc is gone. Our thoughts are with his loved ones and his gambling accomplices,” he wrote.

Michel Blanc had been nominated 9 times for the César, as the Academy recalled this Friday. He won two, during his career, that of best actor in a supporting role for State Exercise in 2012, and the Honorary César awarded to the Splendid troupe in 2021.

He was nominated in 1985 for the César for best first work for Walk in the shade. In 1987 for the César for best actor for Evening wear. Then in 1990 for his role in Monsieur Hire. His film Grosse fatigue earned him a César nomination for best original screenplay or adaptation in 1995. Then in 2003, the same nomination for Kiss whoever you want. In 2007 and 2008, he was nominated in the best actor category for his roles in I find you very beautiful and The Witnesses.

“From the lightness of laughter to the depth of emotion, Michel Blanc embodied the multiple face of our cinema,” writes the Academy on X.

Pierre Niney paid tribute to Michel Blanc on Instagram. “Michel Blanc, immense actor, funny and deep, simple and touching. His kindness and his talent impressed me so much during my first film shoot, I was 18 years old, I played his son. I knew that I wanted to be an actor thanks to this kind of encounter.”

The actor Hakim Jemili, who shared the poster with Michel Blanc in the film Doctor, by Tristan Séguéla2019, paid a long tribute to his “cinema dad” on Instagram.

“Thank you for all your advice, thank you for the laughs, thank you for making me grow as a human and thank you for teaching me how to act in front of the camera. You taught me the craft of acting, you taught me to be fair and natural,” he wrote.

“Michel for the record: I was lucky enough to have made my first film with you (Doctor) in 2019 and I was also lucky enough to have made your last film this year (it comes out in 2025) . It’s crazy… I love you Michel!”

“Michel! I don’t believe it! Collapsed”, published Bruno Moynot, another sidekick of the Splendid, who played the unforgettable Gilbert Seldman in Tanned people go skiing.

Asked about RTLGérard Jugnot expresses his emotion. He evokes “a sledgehammer blow”.

“I was told that he had a huge allergy to a medication, an anaphylactic shock. I know they tried to revive him, it was terrible all day yesterday… and he is gone,” he says.

“Everything was fine, we saw each other not long ago for the cover of Paris Match, we laughed like idiots, as usual…”

The Splendid troupe met in February 2021 on the Olympia stage to receive an honorary César.

“We didn’t see each other often, but when we did, we picked up the story where we left off, with a lot of fun and derision.”

Michel Blanc has left us. This morning the pain is immense, commensurate with his talent. In front of the camera of Bertrand Blier, Robert Altman or Pierre Schoeller, Michel Blanc will have amazed us with the variety of his acting, but also by his talents as a director with films like Walk in the shade Or Very tired. Cinema, the world of culture and all French people will not forget it.

“I can’t imagine that he’s no longer here,” said Patrice Leconte, the director of the three parts of the Tannedasked about RTL.

“I’m wondering how this is possible. What I’m going to miss is him, who he was.”

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“He was a friend,” he adds. “He was very identified with the Splendid, but (…) he had extraordinary playing colors, he had a second degree, he had great emotion, he had great sensitivity outside of the funny roles”.

“He had this sort of quality of being tragically funny.”

“He had something a little sad in his eyes, but he was someone who had a lot of cheerfulness. We forget him but he loved music, playing the piano. He had a keen sensitivity. of skin which, always, was reduced to sadness But I believe that it is not only this sensitivity, it led him to interpret the roles in an astonishing way, outside the highways of comedy.

Like Gérard Jugnot, Josiane Balasko reacted on Instagram to the disappearance of her comrade Michel Blanc.

“Michel my friend my brother my partner,” she wrote.

Gérard Jugnot, comrade of Splendid, published this message on Instagram: “Fuck, Michel, what have you done to us”.

Michel Blanc met Pasteur Christian Clavier, Thierry Lhermitte and Gérard Jugnot at the high school. With Marie-Anne Chazel, Josiane Balasko and Bruno Moynot, they founded the Splendid troupe.

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