“I dream of playing Michel Polnareff”

You rendomate Samy’s costume. What happens to him?

Each season propels the hero into one of the European institutions. This time, he discovered the heart of power: the European Council, where the heads of state meet.

A character you dream of interpreting?

The singer Michel Polnareff, who embodies a very French verve, while having exiled for a time in the United States. This love-hate relationship touches me, I who left for California at 17 because I was in conflict with my country, my schooling, my father.

The music that makes you happy?

It depends on the project I write. For my next series on an influencer, I listened to the titles that triumph over Tiktok, as The flaw rapper Jul.

The series you could see a hundred times?

The Office American satire of the world of work in the 2000s, broadcast by NBC. From the second episode, it pinpoints ordinary racism. I dream of telling something about France in such a progressive and unifying way.

What will you never tire of contemplating?

The country game country World of Warcraft with which I grew up. I often think of the dark wood, where my character treated poisoned trees.

The person who counted the most in your family?

My mother, who loved my way of injecting laughter into everyday life. Whenever I do something, I think of it.

The Madeleine de Proust from your childhood?

The tatamis. Small, I did judo. Today, with the Brazilian jiu-jitsu, I find this protective space.

A good plan to reconnect to nature?

Gardening. Decree, plant, cut off the moments of fullness.

For what cause would you mobilize?

I would like to shake up the Ehpad system, where I accompanied my father. After the shock investigation by journalist Victor Castanet, The gravediggers I think about what fiction could bring.

What beauty will save the world?

Fiction, precisely, which, by the detour of the images, makes it possible to understand it. Such as Fables From the fountain, small stories of animals that transmit a moral.

We offer you immortality. Do you sign?

Never. It is the breath of each generation that advances humanity.