The French know him especially since his arrival in 2020 on LCI, but Marius Rochebin has long been a real celebrity in his native Switzerland. For years at the head of the Sunday show Excuse me on the RTS, the journalist has a style all his own, with piquant and very direct phrasing. And his program is a real popular success where he was able to receive all those who mark or have marked the media, culture, sport or even politics, from Michel Piccoli to Simone Veil, via Jean-Luc Godard, Roger Federer , Boris Cyrulnik or Sylvain Tesson. And, in August 2020, the Swiss interviewer received Catherine Deneuve on her set. A meeting that did not go as he had heard… and the journalist had not hidden his displeasure in the media, saying that his guest had been “infected from start to finish”. Noting the anecdote, Eric Dussart could not, this Saturday February 18, 2023, fail to question Darius Rochebin on the subject, when he himself was his guest on the show We redo the TV. And the journalist RTL to throw : ” you know that in France, there are sacred monsters that cannot be tackled“, he said, a bit amused. And the Swiss respond: “But the great sacred monsters have to be a little foul…”.
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The entourage puts incredible pressure…
Eric Dussart pushes him to say more about the circumstances of this meeting with the star Deneuve. He replies: “It was very complicated because she didn’t want to answer questions, she only wanted to promote her film, as often happens… in the world of arts and letters, they are the most difficult to interview, we criticizes the captains of industry, they are often quite nice, the politicians are often quite nice and those who should be cool, who are artists sometimes they are the hardest to interview”, calmly replies the journalist from LCI. The facilitator raises it: “And then there is the entourage that puts incredible pressure…”,
“Oh there !”, he replies immediately, and continues: “Talk about the movie, talk about the book, talk about the play…and everything else: it irritates them. So there was something of that but it had almost turned into a gag because the interview was complicated to conduct, moreover, I hope to be able to do an interview with Catherine Deneuve if she hears us and I indeed admire her a lot.” Eric Dussart then plays an extract from this famous interview, where, indeed, the tone seems very tense… until the moment when Darius Rochebin says to the French star “you have the reputation of having a difficult character”! Laugh on set, Jade’s sidekick on RTL then concludes:I don’t sincerely think that a French journalist would ever have dared to say that to Catherine Deneuve.”!
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Catherine Deneuve: “She was not happy with the questions” . Darius Rochebin in @OnRefaitLaTele on @RTLFrancepic.twitter.com/Ua3l2Dsdqu
— Eric Dussart (@E_Dussart) February 18, 2023