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"This show is an atoll in the hyperactive television landscape": on the set of "En aparté" with Nathalie Levy

2023-03-03T07:35:08.582Z


REPORT – In September 2021, Canal + revived the cult program from its ashes and entrusted the controls to the ex-journalist of BFMTV and Europe 1.


Tuesday, February 14, Charles Berling enters the Canal Factory.

Contrary to appearances, the 64-year-old actor does not come to participate in "Touche pas à mon poste!"

but to

"As an aside"

.

And for good reason, the studios with sienna-colored walls located in Boulogne-Billancourt house the set of Cyril Hanouna's talk show and that of the Canal+ show.

It is therefore not surprising that the dressing room of

Nathalie Levy

's guest is right next to that occupied the day before by Gaëtan Bartosz, Belgian animator who witnessed a foiled attack during the Miss Belgium ceremony.

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In 2005, Charles Berling confided in Pascale Clark.

Conquered by the concept, it is therefore with undisguised pleasure that the actor agreed to lend himself again to the game of the show.

“I find it great fun to be dropped into a space and be guided.

I like stuff where you don't really know where you're going”

, he confides to us a few minutes before the shooting.

As usual, the journalist refuses to come and greet her guest and prefers to introduce herself via a headset.

“It's a bit like a specification.

I think it goes with the format of this show

, she explains.

And then I like a posteriori where we finally meet and where, 99% of the time, it's an embrace.

It's not obvious in fact, we haven't seen each other yet we said deep and often intimate things to each other and there is this physical contact which is obvious.

Installed in a small cabin several meters from the set, she asks her guest that everything is fine.

This one is confused.

"Nathalie, we're coming, I'm not presentable

," he confesses to her.

Indeed, Charles Berling stained his elbow, at the same place where his sister Isabelle sewed him elbow patches.

“She is wonderful

,” he comments.

11:12 a.m., Ludovic Petit, the assistant director, invites the actor to climb three steps to approach the door of the apartment of “En aparté”.

“To my countdown, you enter.

Silence on the set, we shoot... 3, 2, 1.”

Once inside, Charles Berling quickly feels at home and discovers with surprise the objects that have been installed especially for him.

The large screen at the back of the apartment reveals the harbor of Toulon, a city dear to the heart of the actor.

“It's an LED wall.

Each guest is projected a view.

It's a layering of images, one that's fixed and that you animate with effects.

The idea comes from the director François Goetghebeur who decided to make an opening to the outside.

This is the difference with the old decor which was completely closed.

It makes a real sequence so that the guests can react

, ”explains Ludovic Petit.

"It's really well done, it's very complete"

Charles Berling about "En aparté" on Canal+

If some guests tend to be static and conscientiously await Nathalie Levy's instructions, Charles Berling is on the move.

Unable to remain seated for more than ten minutes on the yellow sofa, he answers the journalist's questions while pacing.

Fortunately, eight cameras are placed all over the 85 m2 apartment to capture the slightest of his movements.

In her cabin, behind her screens, Nathalie Levy does not miss a beat.

The journalist ends up asking her guest to sit in the gray armchair and bring the remote control to scroll through the images.

Very comfortable, Charles Berling does not hesitate to set foot on the coffee table.

Once the memory sequence is over, the actor resumes his wandering.

"You can sit down for five minutes

," tactfully insists the journalist, pointing to a chair placed in front of the turntable.

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After more than forty minutes of confession (a program to discover on Tuesday March 14 on Canal +), Charles Berling is delighted.

“Bah say, they know how to work, it's impressive!

It's really well put together, it's very complete, there are heaps of objects, it would take 12 hours”

, he declares while waiting to meet Nathalie Levy in the flesh.

Once reunited, the kiss is de rigueur.

"I'm delighted, it was a great show, you were comfortable from the start, it was super fluid"

, she thanks him.

The actor feels so good that he doesn't seem to want to leave anymore and continues to chat with the journalist while the technicians begin to pack up the accessories.

Among which real plants which regularly have the right to leave the studio to prevent them from dying.

Preparation work

That day, Nathalie Levy has no other shooting after.

But it happens to him to chain nine in one week.

Added to this is all the prep work.

“There is no downtime.

I work systematically, there is not a day without.

Either I go to the screening, or I start reading the summaries that are prepared by the editorial team.

That's my “BFMienne” training where you do everything yourself.

We are preparing for several of my questions but I still have the “final cut”.

I highlight what I prefer, I navigate according to what I know of the guest and my tastes, my curiosities.

Very involved, it happens to the journalist to also intervene on the elements of decoration.

"For Julien Clerc, I wanted to put a navigation bar in the apartment because I wanted to see him move, be in action

," she explains.

“In “En aparté”, I have the right to be moved, to have shivers when a guest will tell me about a grief, a difficulty…”

Nathalie Levy

If Nathalie Levy particularly likes

to “pick up”

her guests, the journalist is also sometimes picked up by their answers.

As was the case with JoeyStarr.

The rapper and actor refused to discuss his relationship with his former sidekick Kool Shen.

"But that's none of your business

!

Are you from the prefecture or what

?

, he replied curtly, leaving his interlocutor speechless.

“I asked him a question that everyone was asking, we all want to know.

My question was legitimate.

It turns out that he didn't want to answer it and that he obviously has things to hide.

At that time, I am upset for the viewer that he does not want to answer it because it says something about a whole story, a whole chapter, ”

she regrets.

And when her guests are overcome with emotion, Nathalie Levy does not refuse to be too.

“I did 15 years of info where you had to be in implacable neutrality.

In “En aparté”, I have this latitude.

I have the right to be moved, to have shivers when a guest will tell me about a grief, a difficulty… This is what also makes the essence of this show.

I almost wanted, at that time, to be in symbiosis with them because that's also how we are in the truth.

I only have my voice to transmit my emotions so I don't insist on what they are but I don't want to lie or be under the illusion.

It is not an artificial exercise so we are in the truth of the reports

, ”she comments.

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Since the start of the school year, “En aparté” has brought together an average of 185,000 viewers each evening.

The audience record is held by Virginie Efira (310,000 people) followed closely by Carla Bruni (300,000), Jérôme Commandeur (282,000) and Jean Todt (269,000).

"It's a very nice welcome.

As with any date, it takes time to settle in.

We are given time.

The guests come, they are very curious for those who did not know the first version.

And those who knew the first version are very curious to see this new version”

, analyzes Nathalie Levy.

And to conclude:

“This show is a bit like an atoll, an archipelago in a hyperactive television landscape.

There, we are on a temporality and a different color with emotions, something very natural, very sincere

.


Source: lefigaro

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