"Me, I'm a crook, but honest because everyone knows I'm a crook"
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This is how Éric Antoine's nocturnal stroll begins in our program "Le Figaro La Nuit".
The starting point for this walk punctuated with confidences, La Seine Musicale where Éric Antoine will perform on May 13 and 14.
An ambitious show that mobilizes a total of 200 people.
"I tell people I'm going to rip them off and they pay for me to deceive them, to deceive them, they pay for me to make them dream, to make them laugh, to take them somewhere else," he explains
. it to Thibaut Gauthier.
“On stage, I have about fifteen guys with whom I work.
Finally a girl and 14 guys on stage”
he continues.
Spectators see an average of three
“who help me with my delusions”
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In the past, it was Calista Sinclair, his wife and mother of their children who assisted him.
"She's my ex-wife now,"
says Éric Antoine as he walks along the banks of the Seine in Boulogne-Billancourt.
"We hated the position of assistant that we found of an infinite misogyny"
remembers the magician who recognizes that the world of magic is
"very masculine"
before adding:
"It's a job that is starting to move with some women who are making international careers”
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"Breaking the Image of Magic"
With Calista Sinclair, they then decide to
"break the image of magic"
in their shows.
“We said to ourselves that we were going to dress her all in black and she will believe that she is invisible and we will call her Bernard”
cites Éric Antoine as an example.
The magician then tells another delicious anecdote in "Le Figaro La Nuit":
"Then after we created a second character called 'The assistant, but not submissive' and she showed that all the magic work was done by women and magicians were just profiteers pretending they had powers while they did all the work
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Even if today they are separated, it remains a
very nice memory,
for the one who is also a member of the jury of "France has an incredible talent".
