On the occasion of the upcoming release of the radio fiction “Les Marrons de Kourou” on Outremer La1ere of which Lucien Jean-Baptiste is the narrator, we invite you to find the director of “The first star” in a number of #maparole recorded in 2020.
Comedian, director, screenwriter, Lucien Jean-Baptiste signed six films that are both funny and sensitive. For each of his feature films, the author of The first star Admit that inspiration has often come from his mother, an inexhaustible source of stories. With his five brothers and sisters and his “mother courage “ Juggling between three jobs, the atmosphere in his HLM city in Bonneuil (Val-de-Marne) was happy.
Lucien Jean-Baptiste did not invent the story of The first star. It’s a bit of his own. His mother said to him: “I did not do 7000 km coming from Martinique so as not to make 500 more and see the snow “. The director also remembers his first trip to Martinique at the age of 10 as well as the incredible impressions he felt during this month and a half spent in a family he did not know, “The heat on arrival, the clothes that stick to the skin, the streets, the smells, the songs, the sounds, the country without electricity“. He did not forget anything about this first trip. He also remembers how his mother had deployed so much energy in order to dress all the siblings.”Your mom disguises you to show that everything is fine and that we have succeeded“He recalls.
In Bonneuil, Lucien Jean-Baptiste has not forgotten racism. It was not so much the insults that marked it the most, but rather the way in which young people of his age were prevented from realizing their dreams, by orienting them in an authoritarian way towards CAP or BEP that they had not chosen. He dreamed of becoming an actor. He still remembers that his mother who worked both as a canteen, a cleaning lady and in the evening in a restaurant, had found time to register him for a cast to advertise.
After a long passage in events and advertising, Lucien Jean-Baptiste returns with his childhood dreams. At 30, following a personal drama of which he hardly wants to speak, he pushes the doors of the Florent Cours in Paris. Since that day, the actor has been tracing his journey in cinema by making comic films with this note that is both melancholy and poetic that distinguishes them.
With The first star, 30 ° Colors, Thank GodLucien Jean-Baptiste does, as he says himself, his “psychoanalysis“Through his films. In the second chapter of #Maparole, the actor talks about these Italian and English directors who inspired him and that the way he imagined his films.
A year before The second starLucien Jean-Baptiste signs He already has your eyes, the story of a Adoption of a white child by a black couple. The film, very well received by the public and the press, is then available in series broadcast on France 2 in February 2020. The writing of a series, a titanic work for which Lucien Jean-Baptiste said in #Maparole not to wish to recur, except as an actor. Finally, the actor repaired with Joseph currently on TF1.
Through his films, Lucien Jean-Baptiste is fighting against racism and stupidity. He explains it in this second part of #Maparole. The actor, passionate about history, will be the narrator of radio fiction The chestnuts of Kourou On June 10, the date of the abolition of slavery in Guyana.
♦ May 6, 1964
Birth in Martinique
♦ December 25, 1967
Arrival in France with his mother and five siblings
♦ August 4, 1999
Output Wild Wild West In France with Will Smith of which Lucien Jean-Baptiste made the voice in French in seven films
♦ 25 mars 200
Output The first star
♦ August 27, 2016
He already has your eyes Presented in preview at the Angoulême Francophone Film Festival
