Gilles Bouleau explained how he managed to convince Florent Pagny to talk about his fight live. A simple text message of friendship was enough: “Not knowing him, I asked for his phone number and sent him a note. I told him : “Hello, we don’t know each other, I’m Gilles, I present the 8 p.m. news, I just wanted to tell you that if you thought it useful, interesting, to come to our newspaper, you were more than welcome. Friendships”. A few days passed, he texted me back: “Yes, I’m in the middle of chemo, so a little tired, but as soon as I get out, I come.” It’s done very simply, like this.”
Aware of the exclusivity that awaited him, the journalist had prepared specific questions to get his guest talking. But Gilles Bouleau didn’t even need to read his files: “I had planned very structured questions, but all that was shattered because he knows how to tell the story himself. He didn’t really need me. I quickly realized that the best to get the most was to erase me. I think all the work was up front. The fact that I asked him, the fact that he accepted, the fact that we didn’t know each other and that despite everything he accepted, all the work was done.”
Gilles Bouleau immortalized these moments on his Twitter account and reiterated the message that everyone wants to send to Florent Pagny: “Thank you for coming to testify. The entire TF1 editorial staff is proud of you“.