by The director and screenwriter Alexandre Astier had paid tribute to actor Pierre Mondy, who had given him a great moment of acting on the series “Kaamelott”.
Alexandre Astier has always loved the actors, he even has favorites, for whom he particularly appreciates writing, but none seems to have marked him as much as the French actor Pierre Mondy. The latter was recruited in the Kaamelott series to embody César, the mentor of the young Arturus, future king of Brittany.
The rest is Alexandre Astier himself who told him in a conference given to Comic con Paris in 2012:
“Don't worry, little”
“At one point, he has a long monologue in a plumard. (…) I think there are 4 pages of monologue. (…) He had it the same morning and I go [le] See to say to him: 'Well, it was planned in sequence plan' – that means that we do not cut the cam, that he cannot stop in the middle or to be mistaken – so I say to him: 'Stone, we drop, sorry, you did not have [le texte] that this morning … 'he [tapé sur l’épaule] And he made me: 'Don't worry, P'tit'. We turned on the cam, we made two catches, the two doses are near. 83 years old. “
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a2xnfjutmji
On the Kaamelott set, at the time of the last day of filming of Pierre Mondy, he is applauded, as the great tradition of cinema wants. Faced with applause, Mondy lets go of a modest: “The guys, I am twenty years younger”. Astier continues:
“It means that it took an asshole like me to have a text that has been like it for 20 years. So I'm going to say something. It is not said, but I'm going to say it anyway. TF1 guys who put him in a series where he was pampering himself, I piss them. When it comes from where it comes (…), we don't go to 30 km/h with a Ferrari, it's blasphemy. “
An attenuated provocation
Very clear or even provoking remarks, on which Alexandre Astier made it possible to return:
Calt Pierre Mondy in “Kaamelott”
“It was a bit stupid what I said at the time”he said in 2024 to the podcast Legend. “Indeed, he was in 'The Cordier – judge and cop', it worked very well. But I did not recognize Mondy in it. I had the impression that we could have written that for someone else. It was not for him. There was no tenderness in this text. There was not something that was done and made to measure. But at the same time, at least, at least, at least, at the same time, [TF1] made him work. This is what I did not think at the time. At least he was in front of the French. It's stupid what I said. “
What is certain is that thanks to his presence in Kaamelott, and also to the 2012 interview which turned a lot at the time on the Internet, Alexandre Astier helped to rediscover Pierre Mondy to a new generation.
But who was Pierre Mondy?
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Died in 2012, Pierre Mondy was above all a theater actor, known in particular for having been the first to play Oscar In the theater, before staging Louis de Funès in the role. He had started at the cinema in July Rendez-vous by Jacques Becker (1949), carried by Daniel Gélin and in which he appeared fleeting. He had obtained one of his first striking roles in the Austerlitz of Abel Gance (1960) in which he interpreted Napoleon.
In 1973, he turned the comedy but where did the 7th company go? which will be a huge success, to the point that it will be followed by two suites. From 1992 to 2005, Mondy will play the role of Commissioner Pierre Cordier for TF1, before winning his own series, Cordier Commissioner, from 2005 to 2008.
