This Wednesday, June 28, "C à vous" received Jérémy Michalak, a former member of the team and Lucie Carrasco for the broadcast the same evening on France 5 of "Lucie en Californie". They have been travelling the world together since 2015. In each episode of the documentary, the duo embarks on a different destination to give a different image of disability. "We didn't hope to change things, but to get the message across 'fuck, live your life,'" says Lucie Carrasco. The young woman is waiting for spinal muscular atrophy. A rare genetic disease that results in a degeneration of the nerve cells that control muscles. After Brazil, Japan and Canada, the stylist and producer visit California.
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Together, they form an accomplice, touching duo. "I didn't think it would change me intimately, that our relationship would bring me so much. It has fundamentally changed me over the years, "explains the one who will become a columnist in "Le Magazine de la santé" in September. "I let myself be picked because I had not considered that it could bring me anything other than the production of a TV program. In the end, the story proves me wrong and proves me wrong, "adds the producer who recently told us in "The Buzz TV" love his life as a stay-at-home father.
"We are inspired by differences!"
Yet this human epic and full of humor faced a lot of refusals before France Televisions positioned itself. "It took me 4 years to sell this program that seemed simple enough to seduce a broadcaster. And all the TV channels, private or public, everyone threw it at me," recalls Jérémy Michalak. Today, situations of disability are less and less invisible on television. An evolution of society welcomed by Lucie Carrasco who believes that difference "is the thing that enriches the most". "We are inspired by differences!" she adds.
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