"En aparté" returned to Canal + last year.
Nathalie Levy intervenes in voice-over to talk with a personality who settles, alone, in a TV studio transformed into an apartment.
The journalist, who collaborated with BFM, France 5 or Europe 1 before joining the encrypted channel, thus received more than 140 personalities during the 2021/2022 season.
Florence Foresti will be the first guest this fall.
Nathalie Levy confides in this new burst of emissions.
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TV MAGAZINE. – You covered
“
En aparté
”
last year.
Are we less stressed at the dawn of a second season?
Nathalie LEVY.
– Yes, there is a lot of enthusiasm and a little less stress, it's true, because we know the environment, we know what works and what works less.
We took our marks, in fact.
We know where we are.
We are spoiled to have such a program exist.
It's very jubilant.
There is this little stress which goes well because without this slight stage fright, I consider that we are less involved.
Above all, there is a lot of desire to do something different, better, more accomplished, more precise, very eclectic and elegant, I hope.
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Who will be your guests?
We are going to receive our first duo.
This is the novelty of this 2nd season.
We push the furniture a little if I dare say and, indeed, we will receive Olivier Nakache and Éric Toledano.
It's a great experience because they are obviously complementary.
It's a terrific duo.
This was done with breathtaking naturalness because they themselves are of great humanity.
They found their place in the apartment and we found our rhythm with them.
We also did Enrico Macias with his grandson, Symon.
Will there be regular duets?
We don't want anything artificial, so it only makes sense if they're real duos.
For example, I love Yvan Attal and Charlotte Gainsbourg very much, I really want to receive them both.
Or the Dutroncs, father and son.
There are obvious duos like that.
We don't want to make them, we don't want it to be far-fetched.
"We don't want anything artificial, so it only makes sense if they're real duets."
Nathalie Levy
For you, what is a successful show?
The ingredients of a good program are the generosity of the guest, and no posturing, no ready-made sentences with elements of language.
It's a guest's way of accepting erasures, blanks, hesitations.
That, to me, is a great show.
What I want is for the guest to agree to be uprooted immediately.
Is it easy to achieve this?
Recently, I received Catherine Frot.
She is a wonderful actress, sharp, demanding.
She needs air, as she says, between her roles, she talks little about herself.
It was a challenge for me because she has this culture of secrecy, this modesty, and in fact, in the end, she no longer wanted to leave.
She was fine and in the end, it was a nice experience, a nice trip.
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Which guests impressed you last season?
There are plenty !
It's complicated, we did more than 140 shows.
I was extremely seduced by Amélie Nothomb.
He is an inhabited character.
She is very human.
There was a connection between us, something in which we recognized each other.
I won't be able to explain it but there is something like that.
I adored Benoît Poelvoorde, who is whimsical, cultured;
or Adèle Exarchopoulos, whom I find as beautiful as it is interesting.
She is very rock, glamorous, she has something different, she is very inspired.
Afterwards, I adored André Dussollier, Gérard Lanvin, Tahar Rahim… And Line Renaud.
I have a great weakness for old age, it's a bit my commitment and Line Renaud looks a lot like my grandmother, there's something sentimental about it.
Where is the adaptation in fiction of
Courage au cœur et sac au dos
, the book where you evoked your relationship with your grandmother?
We are working on it with Stéphanie Pillonca and Dominique Farrugia.
It's a wonderful adventure that is taking shape.
We are working on the screenplay, with Catherine Hoffmann as well.
When Dominique Farrugia told me that he loved my story with my grandmother and that he wanted us to do something about it, very sincerely, I thought I was never going to touch the ground.
Then Stéphanie Pillonca has this look, this acuity, this ability to do societal with an insane luminosity.
I can not wait.
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Where are you in your commitment to caregivers?
I am working on a documentary dedicated to this subject.
Then I get involved as best I can, depending on the requests and the possibilities.
I am neither a spokesperson nor an ambassador.
I told my story of “loving” more than “helping”.
My grandmother is my heritage, it is my extra soul
.
The visibility of carers is too low
.
I want at my very small level to zoom in on those people who deserve better, whether they are family caregivers or professional caregivers.
