Now a key figure in the French media landscape, Éric Antoine became known in 2006. The year during which he took his courage in both hands and participated in the program “France has an unbelievable talent” on M6. Several years after his passage, the one who mixes humor with magic is now on the other side of the “wall”. Éric Antoine now sits on the bench of the jury and has the power to stop a candidate’s adventure or, on the contrary, allow him to go as far as possible.
A role that the 46-year-old artist greatly appreciates and that he takes to heart. No doubt because he has been in the shoes of the candidates in the past and he knows how hard this “step” can be. And stages, accompanied by hardships, Éric Antoine has experienced a lot of them. Guest of Nikos Aliagas this Saturday, April 22 in “50’Inside”the magician indeed evoked his difficult past in front of the facilitator. “People either hated me or loved me, but something was going on”he remembers immediately, with a lot of emotions.
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Eric Antoine: no one believed in him
In addition to the judgment of his comrades, Éric Antoine lived a very different childhood from them. This is because of a strong growth spurt that will make him grow 21 centimeters in just one year, but above all force him to stay in bed for many months. A period he has never forgotten, and for an obvious reason: “It’s as if you’re being robbed of a moment and that’s perhaps why today I want to make this moment of childhood last”.
Once this complicated period has been crossed, the 46-year-old artist must face a new one: the moment when he had to accept his character, which mixes magic and humor. A concept far from being understood by his fellow comedians, but also magicians. “The comedians with whom I performed told me that magic was corny. The magicians told me ‘don’t do humor, it breaks the magic’. Everyone was against me”he confided to Nikos Aliagas before recognizing his luck: “but I arrived at the best time because everything had to be done”.
But above all, he was able to count on the support of his mother, who died in 2008, to make his dreams come true. “She saw everything, everything, the very beginning of my career. She saw, I think, my first autograph, and then she left. But she was the one who told me ‘go do some theatre'”recalled Éric Antoine, on the verge of tears, before revealing a tender anecdote: “in the letters she wrote to my brother, my sister, and me, before she died she said to me ‘it’s good Eric, you are where you should be’ and that’s…” A letter that the artist will always keep with him.
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