He returns ! This sentence suited Zinédine Zidane when he returned to the France team for the 2006 World Cup, but Frédéric Lopez can also appropriate it. Indeed, the famous animator of France 2known in particular for his program which takes viewers on a journey, Meeting in unknown landwill replace Michel Drucker on the square occupied by Can’t wait for Sunday. It will be from mid-October that the presenter’s fans will be able to find his new program Sunday in the countryside. Program in which many personalities will be received to discuss their life, in a house far from everything.
An appointment that almost never saw the light of day according to the words of the one who was unrecognizable a few months ago, this Friday, July 15, at Telestar. Indeed, the host seemed “drowned” by the media agitation and the overflow that this could generate. “I was very well at home in the Cévennes far from any media agitation, without an interview even though I am very talkative, and I had no intention of showing my face on TV at all”he confessed at first before revealing that a person had been able to convince him.
How was he convinced?
This is Anne Holmes, the program director of France Televisions who knew how to find the words to bring him back to the small skylight and occupy the Sunday afternoons of the French in three months. “She turned my brain around. She first came to see me, we chatted, it was very nice but I repeated to her, from the start, that it was not worth her insisting”confides Frédéric Lopez, who left his place to Raphaël de Casabianca before revealing the arguments used by Anne Holmes to change the situation.
“She came back to the charge. She spoke to me about my values and by evoking something intergenerational, a value that obsesses me, she touched my heart. A Sunday in the countryside, it will be sincerity , humanity, authenticity, inclusion… I offered to do one out of two, she told me that it would be refused. I spoke to my team, faithful since my beginnings. They told me that they were able to manage to shoot two hours of programs twice in 48 hours. I said banco”, he revealed. No doubt viewers will be able to thank Anne Holmes for her due success in bringing back one of the country’s favorite animators.
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