The documentary proposals, Pierre Lescure has always rejected them en bloc. His life, this son of journalists recruited at not even 40 years old to participate in the creation of Canal +, which he then directed for two decades, was told in 2012 in “In the baba”, his autobiography. A book rather than a program, for the child of rock as much as of television. The one who now chairs the Cannes Film Festival prefers to question the artists who parade on the set of “C à vous”, where he is a columnist, than to tell his story. The interviewer does not like to be interviewed.
But Maxime Switek, his former office neighbor for six seasons in the writing of the talk show of France 5, managed to change his mind. The new recruit of BFMTV has just finished with the director Philippe Lézin "Pierre et Lescure", a 59-minute documentary produced by Third Eye which will be broadcast this season on the Five.
It all started with a joke
“I don't particularly like to tell about my life. Only Michel Drucker takes pleasure in doing it, 36 times a day! ", Jokes Pierre Lescure, explaining that it all started with a" joke "on the set of" C to you ". “One evening, I was asked to introduce the cook of the day and I didn't really want to. Maxime offered to replace me, on condition that I tell him yes to something after the show. I accepted. An hour later, he presented his project to me and I stayed behind for a bit. I was touched that such a talented, hardworking and loving kid was blown away by my story. "
Under the cameras of Maxime Switek, Pierre Lescure flew to Los Angeles, where he directed the legendary Universal Studios for two years. “When I returned to my office at the time, on the 14th floor of the Black Tower, I remembered that when one of my interlocutors annoyed me I would slightly lift my eyes and watch the dinosaurs in the Jurassic attraction jiggle. World in the nearby park! »He adds. Pierre Lescure promises that Maxime Switek has also asked him disturbing questions, especially on the end of his adventure with Canal + and more intimate aspects of his life.
"Pierre et Lescure" will be screened in preview at the Deauville Festival on September 5th. “I'm pretty happy with that. I have a lot of esteem for Bruno Barbe, who is one of the best festival directors in France. And it is also a kind of beautiful conclusion: in 2002, just after being excluded from Canal, Deauville offered me to be the president of the jury, which had touched me a lot. "