Better late than never: after 34 seasons, “Fort Boyard” will finally allow two of its most emblematic characters to express themselves, reports TVMag. Passe-Partout and Passe-Muraille, the two small people from the cult France 2 game, will in fact be able to “talk” from season 35, which will be broadcast in June 2024.
It’s a real development, and one that puts an end to an injustice because the actors Anthony Laborde (who plays Passe-Muraille) and André Boucher (aka Passe-Partout) are absolutely not silent!
A “comfortable” silence?
The fact that we never heard the sound of their voices in “Fort Boyard” is only a bias in the production of the game… which can be explained, reminds BFMTVby the desire to more easily transpose the program into foreign versions.
The production company of “Fort Boyard”, Adventure Line Production, clarified this evolution of the roles of Passe-Partout and Passe-Muraille to TVmag: “They will speak without making big speeches. And if there have always been interactions with Olivier Minne and the participants, they will now say a few sentences.”
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BFMTV welcomes this progress because “Fort Boyard” has often been accused of presenting a degrading image of small people. Wrongly, according to André Bouchet who entrusted to South West, in July 2023, that he would have resigned if he had felt like he was being exploited. Anthony Laborde abundant: “Without my disability, I would never have had this life; he was my strength, and ultimately an opportunity.”