{"id":949852,"date":"2026-05-10T06:06:14","date_gmt":"2026-05-10T06:06:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/949852\/"},"modified":"2026-05-10T06:06:14","modified_gmt":"2026-05-10T06:06:14","slug":"award-winning-chesham-photographer-on-capturing-stars-in-cannes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/949852\/","title":{"rendered":"Award-winning Chesham photographer on capturing stars in Cannes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Blanshard recalled a &#8220;friendly rivalry&#8221; between Arnold Schwarzenegger and Sylvester Stallone whenever they were in Cannes for publicity.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Arnold and Sly adored Cannes and Cannes adored them, but they seemed to play a constant game of trying to upstage one another,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;At the Hotel du Cap-Eden-Roc, all the famous directors they worked with &#8211; and some who they wanted to work with &#8211; were there: James Cameron, Adrian Lyne, Alan Parker, George P. Cosmatos and Alan Marshall. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;We persuaded Arnold and Sly to dance together in front of them.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Shortly afterwards, Sly decided he wanted to go to the Carlton Hotel, so we jumped in a limo and drove off. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;At the hotel, Sly got out and within seconds was surrounded by hundreds of screaming people. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Panicked, he jumped onto the roof of the limo and was eventually smuggled out via the hotel kitchen.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Blanshard recalled a &#8220;friendly rivalry&#8221; between Arnold Schwarzenegger and Sylvester Stallone whenever they were in Cannes for publicity.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":949853,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3939],"tags":[4021,4020,4022,77,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-949852","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-arts-and-design","8":"tag-arts","9":"tag-arts-and-design","10":"tag-design","11":"tag-entertainment","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/116548782283655446","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/949852","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=949852"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/949852\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/949853"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=949852"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=949852"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=949852"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}