On Thursday March 31, an unexpected guest entered the Canal Factory studios in Boulogne-Billancourt (Hauts-de-Seine).
This one does not come to participate in “Do not touch my post!”
but to
"As an aside"
.
Indeed, after receiving a plethora of artists,
Nathalie Levy
succeeded in bringing
Jeff Goldblum
“home” .
The American actor and jazzman was in Europe for a series of concerts.
The opportunity was too good to miss.
"It is a long process.
The first contact with his label dates back to mid-February.
There were a lot of exchanges of emails afterwards to fix everything, especially the technical part.
He obviously knows France because he has already played at the Trianon.
, he hosts “The World According to Jeff Goldblum”.
So we said to ourselves that we might have a chance with the format of our program which is quite singular
, ”explains the journalist to us.
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Upon his arrival in the studios with sienna walls, Jeff Goldblum was intrigued by the enormous portraits hung there.
As for each of his guests, Nathalie Levy refused to meet him before the shooting.
Not enough to offend the American actor who, warned in advance, lent himself with pleasure to the game of questions from his host.
Together, they discussed his film career, his family, his children, his passion for jazz.
"He was really seduced by the concept so he gave a lot
," says the journalist.
Americans often have a bad reputation.
However,
"there was no exuberant request or particular constraint"
, assures the journalist.
Not even "timing".
“We thought we would have to limit ourselves in time.
We had 30 minutes, we thought we would do 35 minutes to have a little bit of slack but in the end we took our time and there was an overflow because there was a real exchange, a real generosity and a real enthusiasm.
He was completely available.
There is something very professional about Americans.
We know it's pretty bordered but from the moment they accepted, they give everything.
That, we really noticed
, ”adds Nathalie Levy.
"Jeff Goldblum was a great guest for us because he's really a protean person"
Nathalie Levy
For her first exclusively English-speaking guest, the journalist had an interpreter to translate her questions to Jeff Goldblum and another to translate her guest's answers.
"We didn't do the interview in English because we thought it was the first time, we weren't sure and we didn't have a lot of things to deal with,"
he said. she not without a touch of regret.
“I would have preferred to do the interview in English because I think I would have had more fun.”
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As expected, at the end of filming, Nathalie Levy joined Jeff Goldblum in the apartment.
“He was extremely warm, extremely tactile
,” she recalls.
Upon leaving the set, the actor was very available.
“He was funny and kind to everyone, greeting each other, not counting his time.
We didn't sense anyone in a hurry, who wanted to run.
We took pictures together, he took pictures with other people.
I think he was really happy”
, adds the journalist before concluding:
"Jeff Goldblum was a wonderful guest for us because he's really a protean person who really has this ease both on stage when he plays jazz and in a film where he is going to be made up or when he talks about astrophysics because he has a fascination for it.
It carried us a lot because it gave us great flexibility
.
