Video: Sworn friends: the scandalous story of the confrontation between Delon and Belmondo - myth or reality?
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55
Two of the brightest stars of French cinema - actors Alain Delon and Jean-Paul Belmondo - have always attracted the attention of journalists. Disputes of fans about "who is cooler" led to the birth of a legend about the irreconcilable enmity of two talented actors. Is it true that in life they were constant rivals and enmity?
They are actors of the same generation, Jean-Paul Belmondo was born in 1933, Alain Delon in 1935. They are both undeniably talented and equally popular. At times they really quarreled, as they often had to work together, and both were jealous of their profession. "Actors, like princes, do not become, but are born," Belmondo liked to repeat, and Delon was in solidarity with him in this.
Belmondo recalled the beginning of their career: “He and I are day and night. From the very beginning, our careers ran in parallel. We both "shot" in 1960: he was in "In the bright sun", I - in "On my last breath." We worked with the same directors. On the set, he was focused, I was relaxed. We were famous and could afford to choose our roles. There was room for both of us in the movies. They often portrayed the same characters - gangsters and loners. " It is interesting that, playing in the same films, they often did not appear together in the same frame - as, for example, in the film "Famous love stories" (1961).
Because of such frequent coincidences and intersections, the two charismatic actors, of course, often clashed. They starred together in the gangster film Borsalino. After the premiere, Belmondo filed a lawsuit against Delon, since, contrary to the agreement, the name of a colleague was mentioned on the posters as a producer and actor. According to the contract, it was supposed to look like this: "" Adele Production presents Jean-Paul Belmondo and Alain Delon in the film "Borsalino" ". As a result, the signature was left: "Alain Delon presents." By itself, this line meant little - but Belmondo was hurt that he was deceived by a man whom at that time he already considered his friend. He won the lawsuit.
Based on this story, journalists have created a legend about the irreconcilable confrontation between the two idols of French cinema. They wrote that, despite the apologies from Delon, Belmondo ignored his attempts to reconcile, did not speak to him for two years and was never able to forgive. And then Belmondo gave an interview in which he argued that this conflict was sucked out of the thumb, and their enmity was inflated by the press: “I am glad to tell you that Alain and I are still friends. We have known each other not for the first day, we have nothing to share, so all attempts to play us off are doomed to failure. " And about the filming of Borsalino, Belmondo said: “Contrary to legend, the filming in Borsalino went well. Alain and I have always been on good terms. It was a pleasure for us to play together and then visit each other. In Marseille, we went around all the taverns. We had a lot in common."
All subsequent years, the actors really remained in warm friendly relations, which made journalists doubt the seriousness of their conflict. Some have suggested that it never happened, and the hype in the press became a PR stunt to attract attention to their film. Be that as it may, the actors continued to compliment each other. “It's a pleasure to play with Delon,” Jean-Paul said. “It's like racing a Ferrari.
Delon did not lag behind: “I admire him. For 30 years we have been running 100 meters together. Brotherhood connects us. My life is his life. And his life is mine. Everything that concerns him also concerns me."
In his autobiographical book Better to Live a Thousand Lives Than One, Belmondo devoted several pages to their relationship with Delon. He wrote: “We have always had a great relationship. He knew that I was not encroaching on his role, and I understood that he was not interested in what I loved. We had not only a different audience, some love us both, while others hate us. We walked in parallel courses. Some said - Delon is better, others - Belmondo. And we just played different roles and were not jealous of each other. Perhaps there was no rivalry in this long-term friendship?
Both actors were very popular with women and experienced many beautiful love stories: Alain Delon and Romy Schneider
Recommended:
Strange selfies of Claude Caon - a scandalous photo artist of the 20th century who has been looking for a balance between male and female all her life
She took selfies and experimented with gender even before it became mainstream. She destroyed the canons and fought against Nazism. She made many attempts at suicide and at the same time … loved life. She embodied the image of a being outside of gender, outside of race, outside of culture. Her photographs are frightening and mesmerizing. This is a story about Claude Caon - without exaggeration, the brightest photo artist of the first half of the 20th century
How in the USSR they fought with religion, and what came out of the confrontation between the state and the church
Perhaps, in no other country has the relationship between state and religion been so diametrically opposed as in Russia, and in a relatively short period of time. Why did the Bolsheviks decide to get rid of the church, and, for example, not win it over to their side, because its influence on the population was always tangible. However, to tell the society to immediately stop believing in what they believed in all their life is practically impossible, because this struggle between religion and statehood was waged
"War of Shadows": How the Confrontation between Russia and England ended in the 19th - early 20th centuries
In 1857, a geopolitical confrontation began between Russia and England, during which countries exchanged moves and complex combinations. It was a struggle for influence in the regions of Central and South Asia, which will be called the "Great Game" or "War of Shadows". The cold war between the two empires at some points could turn into a hot war phase, but the efforts of intelligence and diplomats managed to avoid this
Sworn friends Tyra Banks and Naomi Campbell: Why two black models couldn't find a common language
The fashion world has its own unspoken rules, and the competition between models is so high that it looks more like outright hostility. It is known that two dark-skinned models Tyra Banks and Naomi Campbell do not get along with each other. In some photographs, where two dark-skinned beauties pose together, they can be mistaken for close friends, but they have never been friends, and the origins of their dislike lie in the distant 1990s
16 celebrities who were close friends, but became sworn enemies: Ksenia Sobchak and Anastasia Volochkova, etc
Keeping friendships is not easy. And it's especially difficult to do this when you are famous, because all your relationships are brought out to the public. Therefore, it is doubly difficult to find a person who will not envy, but will lend a helping hand in any situation. Despite this, there are many of the stars who have been together for many years and support each other no matter what. However, some celebrities were less fortunate: once the best friends became sworn enemies