This Friday, June 17, 2022, Gilles Bouleau was present on the Daily set, on TMC. During this interview, the journalist was able to come back to an interview that particularly marked him. Indeed, it was on June 4, 2014 that the flagship presenter of TF1 met for the first time the President of the Russian Federation, Vladimir Putin. A meeting he will probably remember all his life. ” This interview is crazy! “, he first launched against Yann Barthès before saying more: “ We leave by plane and the appointment is fixed at 2 p.m. with Poutine. We were with Jean-Pierre El Kabbach and from 9 am, we prepare the interview. And at 3 p.m., there is still no minibus that takes us from the hotel to Poutine’s residence. At 5 p.m., we go there and we arrive in a very small room. Without a toilet, without a tap, without anything to eat. »
Together, the two acolytes settle in with the film crew when Russian television reporters arrive to make sure Vladimir Putin isn’t inappropriately cut. ” At 7:00 p.m., Putin’s press secretary arrives and tells us he’s coming. We are starting to be tired, we are less pugnacious. We say to ourselves: ‘Okay the questions, I don’t care a bit, I just want us to go.’ Like a delayed tennis or football match, the stakes are no longer the same! You don’t necessarily want to put Putin in trouble or ask intelligent questions. You say to yourself: ‘Let’s get it over with, I’m exhausted, I’m fed up “, specified Gilles Bouleau while explaining that it was probably an attempt at intimidation.
“We had been locked up for 14 hours”
“At 9 p.m. she said to us, ‘Ah, I have good news for you, he’s almost finished!’ At 10 p.m., 11 p.m., nothing happens. We had been locked in this room for 14 hours. The hours go by and still no sign of the Russian president. ” Midnight, she arrives resplendent! ‘That’s it, it’s over, Putin has finished his day, he’s yours. But he has to take a nap first.’ At 1:15 a.m., he finally arrives, fresh as a roach! We were exhausted, exhausted, tired. »
According to Gilles Bouleau, Stalin acted in exactly the same way. ” Once the interview begins, it goes well. He wasn’t trying to be nice and he was ready to talk until the end of the night. […] We figured out who the character was. “A grueling interview for one who has more than 1,500 JTs to his credit.
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