Former President François Hollande lent his voice for an animated feature film inspired by the series Silex and the Citywe learned Monday, August 29 from his entourage and the author, the designer Jul.
François Hollande recorded, with his wife Julie Gayet, the voices of characters who will intervene in the first feature film of the designer, author of five seasons of the animated series Silex and the City (on Arte), his entourage told AFP.
The former president revealed it on Saturday in Free Charente : “He had already asked me for several years. I had declined because it was not the time. There, he asked me to do a voice for a few minutes.”
The cartoonist is used to involving athletes, scientists, philosophers, journalists, and of course politicians in his series, but “this is the first time that he is a President of the Republic”, he rejoiced Monday with AFP.
In the feature film, which will bear the same name as its series “intellectual and talkative”, kind of fresco of our time with the Paleolithic sauce, the voices “are recorded before and we animate over”says the designer.
“There are people who are more or less gifted. He is an insane actor. He was crazy, super funny”he assured, without revealing the character that François Hollande will play. “He opens the film, and we find him throughout”specifies the designer, who had “had the opportunity to meet the former president on many occasions”, as part of his original job as a cartoonist.
“He follows my work”, and “I had already recorded quite a few of his ministers, in particular many Ministers of Culture, such as Najat Vallaud-Belkacem, Audrey Azoulay, Fleur Pellerin, or even Fréderic Mitterrand”recalls Jul, who hopes that the feature film can be released in the fall of 2023.
This choral animated film, co-directed with Jean-Paul Guigue, will have an impressive cast: we will find, for example, the voices of actors Guillaume Galienne, Clément Sibony, Lea Drucker, Frédéric Pierrot, Bruno Solo or Michel Vuillermoz, but also those of writers Amélie Nothomb and Frédéric Beigbeder, journalists Augustin Trapenard or Lea Salamé, or radio and television presenter Stéphane Bern.