The Unknowns will reform…temporarily. Didier Bourdon, Bernard Campan and Pascal Légitimus will be together again for All unknowna unitary fiction that TF1 will broadcast on Monday November 14 at 9:10 p.m.
The concept ? Nineteen of their most cult sketches, from the false report on the hunt for “the ashy galinette” to the music videoAuteuil, Neuilly, Passy Passing by Télémagouilles, will be replayed, identically, by personalities. Among them, among others, François Berléand, Michel Boujenah, Bénabar, McFly, Carlito, Issa Doumbia, Elodie Frégé, Christophe Willem, Adil Rami, Bérangère Krief and Pierre Palmade… The comic trio will appear between each sequence in humorous skits shot in the TF1 tower.
Let the nostalgic take advantage of this television interlude because the trio is not about to go back on stage. “I brake, it’s my opinion, my feeling. I don’t particularly want to, ”explained Bernard Campan during the press conference. And to explain: “Redo sketches, it would be too much of a headache. At best, people would say “That’s just as good” but in general, in this business, we do things to “do better”. If we resumed the old sketches, would it be better? »
“At 64, playing a teenager can be pathetic”
“The fear is that we are told that it was better before,” admitted Didier Bourdon, who still seems more ready to return to the boards. “We can each make other pieces but for Les Inconnus, we shouldn’t wait too long,” he pressed. The argument did not remotivate Bernard Campan: “ [A l’époque], we were two hours on stage. It required an energy that we couldn’t have today. It was exhausting. »
What about a recurring return to the small screen like Strangers TV, seven issues of which aired on Channel 2 from 1990 to 1993? “That’s for sure we wouldn’t do well. We no longer have the age for that, ”said Didier Bourdon. “When you’re 30, you can put on a wig and make a 15-year-old teenager… When you’re 64, wearing a wig to make a youngster can be a little pathetic,” said Bernard Campan.
On the other hand, the trio is very motivated by the project of Riad Sattouf for the cinema, in the course of writing. “He proposed a synopsis, we agreed, confides Bernard Campan. It’s poetic. It is not the leg of the Unknowns however, one can find it inside. In the fact of embodying several characters, for example. We will have the pleasure of getting together to play without having to worry about directing or writing. “This time, it is Didier Bourdon who has fears: “I’m afraid that the fans of Sattouf will be disappointed and that the fans of the Unknowns too. »