"Do you still have a long time to go?"
Because Laurent Ruquier is trying to reach me there…” This Thursday morning, Gérard Majax has been awash in phone calls since his magical appearance on the small screen, Wednesday evening, during the televised debate between the presidential rounds.
Emmanuel Macron quoted the star conjurer of the 1980s to criticize Marine Le Pen, especially when she addressed the issue of unemployment: "It's not Gérard Majax tonight, we're talking about lives behind the lives of our merchants, our craftsmen, that's the Covid debt, you voted against!
“attacked the president-candidate, exhuming the name of the magician who has since made the happiness of social networks.
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Just before our call, Gérard Majax had received that… from the president himself.
“He thanked me for inspiring him.
I thought it was a joke from an impersonator friend, but it was Emmanuel Macron.
Frankly, being quoted with de Gaulle in a debate is very amusing.
The magician was watching the broadcast when he heard his name.
He was taken aback at first.
Then it is said that there is a correlation between “illusionism and politics.
There are a lot of illusions in politics.
When they manage to keep their promises, that's good.
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He is looking for a producer for the sequel to Pinocchio, "Pinocchia"
In the morning, Gérard Majax received "a good twenty calls" from the media.
He responds easily to journalists who have forgotten him for so many years.
And savor, amused, this unexpected spotlight on his life, his work, his projects.
Even if he continues his magic tricks when he can, the magician, who will be 79 years old next Thursday, has taken on other desires.
He wrote with his friend Sylvain Gary the sequel to Pinocchio, "Pinocchia", a cartoon project for which he is looking for a producer.
“Ours had a heart attack.
Gérard Majax throws a bottle into the sea, why not a foot call to Netflix, to move this file forward.
The two authors have also signed a detective comedy with three characters, "La triple vie de Lucette Parlebas", hoping that a theater will stage it.
End of the magic?
“No, I always slip magic elements into my stories!
Pinocchia
will find herself a prisoner with Pinocchio and they will be able to escape with the help of magical animals”, says Gérard Majax, who also writes “magic novels”.
Gurus Demystifier
The magician intervened in particular every Wednesday in 1994-1995 in the Dorothée Club, on TF 1. Before that, from the end of the 1970s, he had presented programs like "Abracadabra", "Y'a un truc", "Passe -passe” or even “Surprise magic” and shot in a few films.
He was also the debunker of gurus who boasted of supernatural powers by twisting a spoon without touching it or extinguishing a candle from a distance.
He fought these charlatans by demonstrating, on television, that these paranormal phenomena were only tricks of illusion.
Then the success went out like the flame of a candle.
In financial difficulty, the former cathodic star had to sell his collection of magic items at auction in 2014. His last television appearance is recent.
It was in 2021 in an episode of the France 2 series “Astrid and Raphaëlle”, in which he played… a magician.