“I must have been a northerner in another life”, the comedian Zize has his feet in Marseille but his heart in Lille

She will be the very first guest on “C’est bien ici”, the new show from France 3 Hauts-de-France and France Bleu, on Sunday October 6, 2024 at 12:55 p.m. In preview, discover who Zize is, this lively Marseillaise with a caustic outspokenness.

Under the blonde wig, once the opulent false chest has been removed, hides the comedian Thierry Wilson. He created from scratch the life of an endearing mamma, who doesn’t keep her tongue in her pocket. Zize would have been Miss Marseille 1974 and even an official Madonna lookalike, at least that’s what this regular on Grosses Têtes on RTL claims. On Sunday October 6, 2024 at 12:55 p.m. she will be the very first guest of It’s good here, program presented by Clarence Fabri and whose principle is to issue (or not) a Hauts-de-France passport to personalities from other regions.

Zize Dupanier, whose name comes from the district of Marseille where the series is filmed More beautiful life, is a mamma of undetermined age (“It’s like Amanda Lear, you’ll have to carbon-14 date me when I die!“), half Jewish, half Armenian and mother of two boys (“Paulo is in his forties, he is getting married, and the youngest, Méü, is 17 years old.“).

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“I find myself in what actors like Catherine Frot or Michel Fau saysays Thierry Wilson, because they need the character, the costume, the atmosphere, the setting. When I created Zize for the theater, I gave him a life, a date of birth, March 28. I fed it all the incredible women I was lucky enough to meet in my life to create the perfect woman. It really exists.“

“It’s essential to go back to basicsexplains the comedian again. This is why I wrote the One Miss Show. You have to know where you come from, if you want to know where you’re going.” Not content to claim that Zize was an official Madonna lookalike in the 80s, he even attributes to her the title of Miss Marseille 1974… obtained unanimously by the jury.

“A daytells Zize with all his cheekiness and with a lot of singing accent, we were going to the beach in Marseille with a friend and there was the competition. At first, I thought it was the Tour de France, because they had put up flags. But since it was June and the Tour is in July, I told myself that since they were on drugs, they had arrived early. But not at all! It was the election of Miss Marseille.”

“It was raining that day, luckily I had the plastic “kavoué”. You’re used to it in the North but we, in Marseille, don’t often wear “kavoués”, you know, with the hood. All the little ones who showed up left, the only one left was me. And I was elected.“

It was Coccinelle, a big music hall star of the 60s, who gave Thierry Wilson the idea of ​​inventing a humorous character. “I was a transformist at Michouhe remembers, and it was she who told me that I needed to take a turn. I saw a show by Marie-Thérèse Porchet, performed by the Swiss transformist Joseph Gorgoni and I found that it held up. If he did it, why not me?“

Thierry Wilson created the character of Zize in 2012. Two years later, the Marseille mamma was on a Parisian stage and immediately, she moved to the Avignon festival where success was achieved three summers in a row. In 2019, Zize even reached the semi-finals ofIncredible Talenton M6.

“All because Coccinelle believed in mesourit Thierry Wilson. She was the woman of my life, a supreme being. We were forty years apart but in her mind, she was younger than me. Even if it flew away – normal for a ladybug! – she watches over me.”

Being today her only beneficiary (he married her in 1996), the comedian agreed that a comic book be dedicated to this trans icon of the 1950s, the first person born assigned male and recognized female by the French Republic after having been defended by Robert Badinter. “Comics are aimed at young peoplehe emphasizes, to those who do not judge. I thought it was good to teach them that there are different people.”

Because I did cabaret, people tend to forget that I studied at the Conservatory!

Thierry Wilson

Creator of the character Zize

Especially since Thierry Wilson is well placed to know that difference is not always welcome: “People often make fun of me, the actor who plays a woman. Because I did cabaret, we tend to forget that I studied at the Marseille Conservatory where I took drama lessons, then at the Cours Florent in Paris.”

“For artists like mehe laments, it’s much harder than for the others, who are lucky enough to have a Parisian producer who manages to place them in all the shows. As for me, I’m almost never taken anywhere, because I don’t have the card. I would love to be invited to DailyI have lots of things to tell them. At Hanouna, the few times I went there, all they thought about was making fun of my character.“

“And if I am one of Big Heads on RTLit’s because Laurent Ruquier is a wonderful conductor and an altruistic man, and he wanted to know who was hiding behind Zize. It reassures me, it proves that in the profession, there is at least one extraordinary guy who believes in me.”

“I am an artist born thanks to the publicconcludes Thierry Wilson, not to producers or television. It is the public that made Zize’s success. These are the people who talked about it and I claim it. Making people laugh is the hardest thing for an actor. So when my audience is there, it makes me want to continue.”

Zize will perform her show 100% Marseille in the region soon: November 15 in Liévin, November 16 in Bouchain and December 13 and 14 in St-Riquier. “A real pleasure… I love your region. I must have been a northerner in another life !“Will she still get her Hauts-de-France passport? Answer on France 3 Sunday October 6, 2024 at 12:55 p.m. in It’s good hereour new weekly program. The show will also be broadcast on France Bleu Nord on Saturday October 5 at 3 p.m. and on France Bleu Picardie on Sunday October 6 at 5:30 p.m.