“I didn’t have the mind to take the next step”

She will not go to the semi-finals. Friday April 11, after a Quicktep on “Show Me How You Burlesque”, by Christina Aguilera, surrounded by dancers of the Moulin Rouge, Julie Zenatti was eliminated from “Dance with the stars”. Without regret: she did not think she arrives so far. His only disappointment? Having “messed up” your last performance.

Paris match. How do you feel three days before your elimination?
Julie Zenatti. I feel good. I am happy with my journey. I feel happy to have experienced what I experienced. And then a little stamped [rires].

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You said you have “messed up” your dance. With hindsight, are you still frustrated with your last performance?
I said anything, this is the problem of direct. In addition, I saw the replay and, indeed, we do not see that I was wrong. It is only me who know that I put my right foot instead of the left foot, and I still continued. In fact, I’m not frustrated, but I don’t like to go on something half. We worked so much for this dance, because the Quickstep is super difficult, it is super technical, it is one of the hardest dances. I don’t really know how to bounce back, it’s not too much my thing, I knew she was putting me in danger, this dance, so I worked a lot. I managed to do it well until the end, and obviously at the moment T, I plant myself. And in fact that’s what annoys me. It is my perfectionist side that reappears. Which bothers me what I managed to be well concentrated, and I don’t know what I did … I think I was a little tired. It was time for me to stop, I think.

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Chris Marques was a little hard, with a note of 6/10, while the other judges agreed on an 8/10. Have you understood his feedback?
I think he had more ambitions for me. It is like a child who plays football, who is coached by his father, and who misses his match. I think it was angry that I plant myself. In fact, at the gates of the semi-final, you must have the mind too. And I think there, even if it was my legs that let go of me a little bit, I started to tire psychologically. At this place of the competition, you have to be super strong, in your head and in your body, and I have not been enough. I didn’t have the mind to take the next step, I think.

Do you manage to be proud of yourself and your journey?
I am proud to have kept. But I cannot say that I am proud of myself, I am proud of us, that is to say of my partner Adrien Gaby and me. Because it’s two. I am proud that we have managed to go so far in the adventure, and that it happened so kindly and gentle. I spent eleven incredible weeks, really. Humanly, it was crazy.

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Didn’t you think we were going so far?
Ah no, not at all. Really. I thought I will make five bonuses. I told myself that I would not hold more, and, in fact, I was worn. I let myself be surprised. At one point, I had a click, and I understood that I had to let something go, I don’t know what. I had to find pleasure in dancing. And when I succeeded, I advanced. And I stopped counting the premiums.

I think I loved so much that I did not feel physical suffering

Julie Zenatti

You were very stressed during the first bonuses, what allowed you to let go?
I was much less stressed on the last premiums, but I was still. I managed to drop a part of stress that was the fear of judgment. For me, at the first bonus, there was the stress of the moment, the stress of the environment, and, in addition, I said to myself: ‘OK, there, people will see me, when I don’t want to be seen at all. It was the first time that I saw me without a microphone in my hand. And all of a sudden, I felt completely naked. I said to myself: ‘It is not possible, it’s been 25 years that I want to be heard and I realize that I do not want to be seen.’ When I understood that, I managed to drop this little stress on the edge of the prosecution. Afterwards, anyway I am a stressed person, I am someone who does not trust me, it’s part of me, and that’s what makes me sing, and that’s what made me dance.

What was your favorite moment of this adventure?
When I danced a contemporary rumba on Céline Dion’s song, “ordinary”. There, I had a lot of fun dancing. I felt like I was telling myself through this song and that I was in the right place.

Was it physically complicated?
The hardest part is the small injuries. I started by celebrating a coast, then I got a tear of the obliques. These are the kinds of injuries that handicap you in performance. But, in fact, strangely, when I am not sporty at all, I have not suffered that much. I think I loved so much that I did not feel physical suffering.

Of all the dance styles you discovered, what was your favorite?
I like slow dances. I like rumba, the American Smooth, and on the face-to-face, I made a waltz, I loved it. I would have liked to make one in full.

The disappointment of Julie Zenatti’s son

What did your loved ones think of your services?
Than positive. They were quite surprised because I can let go of so much, and I am so natural, that is to say that I am on the parquet as they know me in life. It is true that we do not necessarily have the opportunity to show who we are when we are a singer. They felt like it was the Julie with which they live on a daily basis.

And your children?
They were fully. My son was too sad that I came out [rires]. He said to me, ‘I said I would come to the semi-final’. I replied: ‘We can go, but on the other hand I will not dance’.

How did it go with your dancer Adrien Gaby?
There was something quite obvious, it’s funny. We right away very much of course. We have two personalities who are quite similar, we are quite silent, fairly modest, we use a lot of humor to get things to pass, so we are immediately on this. Neither he nor I, have no empipetious on the field of the other, and we created our playground.

And with the other candidates?
It was great, frankly. In the morning, even when I left very early, I was very happy to tell myself that I was going to find them with a coffee machine, that we were going to eat together that we were going to do jokes and that we were going to hide Adil [Rami] so thata [Riera, sa danseuse] Don’t find him because he couldn’t dance anymore. It’s the colo, really. It’s not just for the images, I really got lots of friends. And what makes me the most sad today is not to see my friends.

What candidate particularly amazed at you on the prosecution?
Jungeli. Because he is 16 years old. I remember myself, at 16, on Notre-Dame de Paris. I would never have dared to show that I had so much pleasure. And what I find very beautiful in Joël is that there is no filter. He gives what he has, what he is, he tries and it goes because it is super sincere, super honest. And it is a very beautiful model of young man. I will be very proud to have a child like that.

Did it make you want to continue the dance.
Of course. As we said with Adil, we love dance. I think I will continue and, anyway, I think my body will ask for it. I wriggle because I did not have enough activities today. I’m going to get it back to my life, in my daily life, and we’ll see if it turns into my career or not. I take out a new album called “Le Chemin” and I start the tour on April 24. So we’re going to see if the dance will seize the scene, I don’t know yet.