The end of District 31 released Michel Charette’s schedule, but many projects have been piling up since! In addition to playing in Happiness on TVA and to prepare his first solo show, the actor will co-host the comeback show on Rouge FM with Jessica Barker in the summer.
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The two actors, who are good friends in life, had long cherished the project of doing radio together. The opportunity presented itself when Rouge FM contacted Michel Charette to offer him the opportunity to collaborate on a program or even write a column on its antenna.
“It didn’t interest me,” he says. But doing radio interested me! He suggested to Rouge FM that he and Jessica Barker present their radio project, which would bet on their complicity and their friendship.
I didn’t want to do radio just to do radio.
Michael Charette
The show Copilot for the summer will be meeting-oriented. Each week, the duo will receive a guest, who will participate in the four weekly shows. Michel Charette speaks of it as the “third wheel of the carriage”. The guest will be the subject – “we’re going to talk about his business”, says the actor – but will also suggest subjects. Regular contributors will also join the show, which will be presented from 4 p.m. to 6 p.m.
“All content will go through Jessica and me. She’s no more of a facilitator than me, but sometimes she’s the one who’ll take the lead, sometimes it’ll be me. It will really be 50-50, and we will cast the widest possible net,” says Michel Charette, specifying that the show wants, among other things, to highlight people who are doing extraordinary things in the shadows.
The goal is to make people have a good time. We’re not here to reinvent radio, just to offer a smart, fun show, and all that lightness.
Michael Charette
Michel Charette knows that radio is a medium that allows us to enter into people’s intimacy – their house or their car. He also knows that you can’t be fake on the radio. “The goal is to be as real as possible, as close to people as possible, as sensitive, as funny and as natural as possible,” he says.
“Maybe I won’t like it, that I won’t feel comfortable,” the actor reflects. I want to try it and I have the opportunity to do so. There are people who trust me. I’m a proud guy, my name is on the poster, so I’m going to do anything to make this show work. »
The actor, who played Detective Sergeant Bruno Gagné in District 31 since 2016, also preparing his first one man show. This show produced by ComediHa! is scheduled for 2024 and will be written with the collaboration of his friend François Chénier.