The tone rose sharply in “We are live”, Saturday January 15. Laurent Ruquier received among his guests Franck Ferrand, writer and animator specializing in history, as well as the illustrious actor Francis Huster. The two men share a common passion for the theater. And while Molière celebrated his 400th birthday on Saturday January 15, Franck Ferrand related the reasons why the playwright would not have written his plays himself.
“Molière, for me, is an extraordinary man. He is the founder of theater as we love it. He is a great troupe leader, he is an incredible director. He was said to be, according to some testimonies, a brilliant comedian, that with simply the play of his eyebrows, he was able to make a room burst into laughter. (…) But he was not a writer”, said Franck Ferrand. A theory that boiled Francis Huster. “I will kill him, I will kill him”, he then exclaimed theatrically. A scene that caused hilarity on the set of the show hosted by Laurent Ruquier and Lea Salamé.
Francis Huster then stepped up to the defense of Molière and torpedoed this completely false rumor according to him. “I tell you, this thesis by Corneille with Jean-Laurent Cochet who was my director and whom I admired, but we were pissing with laughter. It’s a joke. She was born of who, of Pierre-Louÿs, who wrote a book, quite simply how to educate young girls in which he tells Pierre-Louis that they have to be impregnated, that they have to be fucked, that they you have to make pipes and it’s this guy, Pierre-Louÿs, who started a joke that Corneille would have written Molière!”, he let go with passion. Between two enthusiasts, no question of making concessions!