Will the spectators recognize his intonation? François Hollande lent his voice for an animated film inspired by the series Silex and the Citywe learned Monday from his entourage and the author, the designer Jul.
The former president recorded, with his wife Julie Gayet, the voices of characters who will intervene in the first feature film by the designer, author of five seasons of the animated series Silex and the City (on Arte). François Hollande revealed it on Saturday in the Free Charente “He had already asked me for several years. I had declined because it was not the time. There, he asked me to do a voice for a few minutes”.
“He’s an insane actor”, according to Jul
Jul is used to involving athletes, scientists, philosophers, journalists, and of course politicians in his series, but “it’s the first time he’s been a President of the Republic”, says is he glad monday. In the feature film, which will bear the same name as his “intello and talkative” series, a sort of fresco of our time with Paleolithic sauce, the voices “are recorded before and we animate over it”, related the designer. “There are people who are more or less gifted. He is an insane actor. He was crazy, super funny, ”he assured, without revealing the character that François Hollande will portray. “He opens the film, and we find him throughout,” he only said.
Jul had “had the opportunity to meet the former president on many occasions”, as part of his original job as a press cartoonist. “He follows my work”, and “I had already recorded quite a few of his ministers, and in particular many Ministers of Culture, such as Najat Vallaud-Belkacem, Audrey Azoulay or Fleur Pellerin, or even Frédéric Mitterrand”, recalled the one who hopes that the feature film can be released in the fall of 2023.
The stars jostle at the casting
This choral animated film, co-directed with Jean-Paul Guigue, will have an impressive cast: we will find, for example, the voices of actors Guillaume Galienne, Clément Sibony, Léa Drucker, Frédéric Pierrot, Bruno Solo or Michel Vuillermoz, but also those of writers Amélie Nothomb and Frédéric Beigbeder, journalists such as Augustin Trapenard or Léa Salamé, or radio and television host Stéphane Bern.