After Emmanuel Macron, Gilles Lellouche, Camille Cottin, Julien Doré or even Virginie Efira, the journalists of Papotin, suffering from autistic disorders, welcome this Saturday, April 22, 2023 the actress Josiane Balasko. Some three million viewers follow these interviews every month on Saturdays at 8:30 p.m. on France 2 since the start of the school year in September. It even rose to five million when President Emmanuel Macron came to talk to these journalists like no other. Because, often, the guests split the armor in the face of frank, poetic, moving or funny questions from their interlocutors. Admitting to having always been aware of having a different physique from that of other young girls in her profession, the actress from splendid admits having wanted to make it a strength. “You had to be pretty, you had to be graceful, and I wasn’t all that.” In her early days, she felt different from the others: “The young girls were playing young firsts. There were no roles for girls who weren’t not blondes with blue eyes, or brunettes, lusciousshe explains. I find myself rather normal, I have always found myself average, not beautiful, not ugly.”
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And the young woman of the time to wonder: “Why are there boys who don’t have terrible physiques and who play? And why wouldn’t it be the same for girls? Far from being discouraged, the apprentice actress quickly understood that she had to take her destiny into her own hands: “I will become a star. I wanted to create my own roles, because there were none at the time. I created characters that make people laugh.” Humor as a guarantee of success in this environment with too conventional rules : “We rather make people laugh with faults than with qualities. We make people laugh more because we fall, because we slip on a banana peel than because we do a very pretty dance step. And the rest of his career, since the epic of tanned to more tragicomic films like The Hedgehog, proves that she was right to insist on her difference. A speech which obviously resonated with the audience of the Papotin.
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“There were no roles for girls who weren’t blue-eyed blondes or luscious brunettes.” Josiane Balasko meets the editorial staff of Papotin, this evening at 8:30 p.m. (or to review on https://t.co/PaFR6EjDAN)! #LesRencontresDuPapotinpic.twitter.com/eJqpYlmS6l
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