Death of Jacques Godin: a “rare and unique” man for Danielle Proulx

Danielle Proulx, Jacques Godin’s main playing partner in the “Under the Lion’s Sign” series, will remember him as a “huge actor”.

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“He was rare, and quite unique as a person,” said the actress in an interview with the QMI Agency, about the actor who died Monday of heart failure at the age of 90.

“It’s not someone who was on the platforms. He was a fairly discreet man, fairly secretive, but as soon as the cameras came on, he was so extraordinary! ”Added Danielle Proulx.

Controversial relationship

“Under the sign of the lion” – a rereading of Françoise Loranger’s soap opera which first had her first life at Radio-Canada in 1961 – lasted for two seasons on the same antenna, in 1997 and 2001.

Danielle Proulx thus played for two years Annette Julien, the servant who took care of the children of the tyrannical millionaire Jérémie Martin, personified by Jacques Godin. The two characters had had a secret love affair for decades, with a child even born out of that relationship in a context where the employee was underage.

“There was a great chemistry between us. We got along very well and saw things the same way. He was a great professional. We had mountains of texts, and our homework was always done. We were happy to do this together. We pinched each other every day “, comments Danielle Proulx about her complicity with Jacques Godin on the set of” Under the sign of the lion “, a series that the actress would like to see be rebroadcast on one channel or another.