FILM · 2006 · FRANCE
Ne le dis à personne
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7 Interesting Facts About Ne le dis à personne
Interesting Facts (5)
- #001
Initially, author Harlan Coben chose the option of sending his novel to Hollywood, with director Michael Apted also attached. During this period, writer and director Guillaume Canet, who loved the novel, reached out to Coben with his own vision for it. Coben said he was immediately struck by Canet's passion for the story and his vision, noting that Canet understood the novel was first and foremost a love story and second a thriller that Hollywood could never understand. When the Hollywood option fell through, Coben contacted Canet and decided to give him a chance.
- #002
The author appears as the tall bald man who follows Dr. Alexandre Beck (François Cluzet) at the station.
- #003
Guillaume Canet recalled that he, François Cluzet and Marie-Josée Croze threw themselves completely naked into the lake at 5 a.m. while the whole crew wore down jackets.
- #004
The rider announced at the equestrian show near the end of the film is named Hervé de Luze, which is the name of the film's editor.
- #005
In a flashback, Alexandre Beck and Margot Beck appear as small children by the lake. François Cluzet is in fact 15 years older than Marie-Josée Croze… and it shows.
Deeper Meaning (1)
- #006
The scene in which Alexandre (François Cluzet) slips and falls on the pavement while fleeing to the housing complex was not written in the script, and the blood on Cluzet's elbow was a real injury from the fall.
Life & Family (1)
- #007
Guillaume Canet and Jean Rochefort share a great deal with the characters they play. Gilbert Neuville (Rochefort) is a horse breeder and his son Philippe (Canet) is a show jumper. In real life, Canet was born into a family of horse breeders and was a show jumper on the French national equestrian team. Rochefort has bred horses since the sixties, owns Le Haras de Villequoy and served as an equestrian events consultant for France Télévisions at the 2004 Olympics.
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