Isabelle Adjani: this day when Gérard Depardieu takes her on an exorcism session

Isabelle Adjani and Gérard Depardieu are what one might call monsters sacred to French cinema. Huge actors, they do not shock their fans if they show some eccentricities. But it may surprise everyone. Indeed, it is a totally unreal scene that these two actors shared. This anecdote dates back to 1987 and it is still very crisp, Objeko assure you.

She is so stunning that she is the subject of a sequence in the second part of true story on Amazon Prime Video. It is in this program that Isabelle Adjani reveals this unusual story. So unusual that it seems unreal! Our colleagues from the magazine Here is also bring this story to their readers. And they agree, the anecdote told by the actress is worthy of a real movie scene.

Isabelle Adjani and Gérard Depardieu experienced an unusual scene

These two movie giants didn’t start their careers yesterday, our readers know that. Also, it will be necessary to go back to the end of the 1980s to locate this anecdote that Isabelle Adjani therefore reports in season 2 of True story. More precisely still, some time before the filming of Camille Claudel, by Bruno Nuytten. Isabelle had won the main role and she imagined Gérard Depardieu perfectly in that of Auguste Rodin.

Even before the film crews offered the role to Gérard Depardieu, Isabelle Adjani therefore says that she went to the inn where he was staying to share her idea with him. But he was apparently in an unusual state. So unusual it was almost disturbing. Indeed, the actor welcomed his actress friend in the strangest way. First, she noticed right away that he was not wearing usual clothes.

And for good reason, Gérard Depardieu was dressed in a cassock. And not just any cassock, the one he wore in Under the sun of Satan. This French film, released in 1987, by Michel Pialat, has received many marks of recognition from critics. He notably received the Palme d’Or at the Cannes Film Festival, unanimously. But also no less than 7 nominations for the Césars. In short, Isabelle Adjani found herself face to face with Father Donissan when she wanted to visit Gérard Depardieu.

Readers ofObjeko will have understood, the actor was still invested in his character when Isabelle Adjani visited him. And she recognizes indeed that she quickly noticed that he was not himself. “I felt that he was not entirely. », she said while explaining that Gérard Depardieu no longer separated from his cassock, even to sleep. But the most amazing is yet to come!

An improvised and totally unexpected spiritualism session

Once Isabelle Adjani arrived at Gérard Depardieu’s inn and saw that he was in his role as Father Donissan, she obviously did not try to reason with him. Because he had other plans for his friend. He took advantage of her presence to offer her, with insistence, a session of spiritualism. As a representative of the church, straight out of a 1926 novel, he put his hands on the forehead of the actress and provoked the spirits.

Needless to say, readers ofObjeko imagine that Isabelle Adjani was circumspect. Certainly lost somewhere between fear, astonishment and amusement. But Gérard Depardieu insisted and he would have said to him: “You’ll see, anyway, all those who don’t believe in spirits are assholes”. And as if that weren’t enough to make this anecdote totally crazy, now all the lights of the inn go out!

“All of a sudden, the inn was completely dark. », said Isabelle Adjani. There is no doubt that the public of true story then awaits an explanation that would justify this coincidence. And fortunately, the actress has a logical explanation for the phenomenon. No, Gérard Depardieu did not succeed in cutting off the current of the inn by appealing to the spirits around him. In reality, the entire region was left without electricity. The fact that the power cut occurs at the same time as the improvised spiritualism session of the actor would therefore be pure chance.

That being said, we have no doubt that some of our readers will doubt it. Indeed, they could say that the actor’s intervention on Isabelle Adjani is the cause of this general power cut. Anyway, it was an anecdote that was worth the detour!