Burger Quiz was his first TV. In 2001, Florence Foresti was an illustrious unknown in the eyes of the French media and cinematographic landscape. The young woman is simply a candidate for Alain Chabat’s game.
Broadcast on the channel Comedy at that time, the Lyonnaise said to herself “extremely stressed” and to have “everything that is a symptom of agony“, a response which already suggested a nice repartee from an actress and comedian.
Then aged 28, Florence Foresti played with Elie Semoun And Sami Naceri going to the final of the show and winning the Burger Quiz game.
“But what am I doing here?”
In front of Bruno Guillonhost of the radio show Le Bon Dimanche Show on RTL, Florence Foresti returned to this experience. “It was fortuitous! I didn’t do it on purpose, they called me, because at the time that’s how they found the first candidates. He wasn’t a pilot but they were the “beginnings” of the show“, she explained
She also reveals behind the scenes of the casting: “To find candidates, they called friends, who called friends, who called friends… It fell on me, like a chain and so I went there” she explains.
Stress and anxiety attack, a bad memory for Florence Foresti
Despite the fact that she won the show presented by Alain Chabat, Florence Foresti does not have very good memories of her first appearance on the small screen.”A bad memory.Because I was super stressed, and then I was starting to be an actress, so I said to myself: ‘But what am I doing here, a candidate for a show?'”. “Afterwards I was very happy to meet Alain Chabat but hey I would have preferred to meet him in other circumstances at that time“.
In 2021, the comedian and actress had already mentioned this episode in her life. To Le Parisien, she said: “They wanted people from civil society, even though I told them that I was an actress that shouldn’t happen. But they took me anyway. I had an anxiety attack during the entire show. I was out of place. I was like, ‘I’m not that person, I’m not a game candidate.’