Historical figure of the Canal+ group, Antoine de Caunes has been there since 1984 and it is therefore quite natural that the channel asked him to embody its 40th anniversary show. “I am part of the DNA of Canal, which has always let me work as I see fit, without constraint. I am not a television man, like Nagui. I am not condemned to repeat every season because That it's my job. Simply, in forty years, I've been able to try the whole range of games, all the formats. That's why it lasts.he explained to our colleagues at Gala. Emma de Caunes' father gave a new interview to Madame Figaro in which he returns without tongue in cheek to certain preconceived ideas concerning Canal+.
Antoine de Caunes provides an update behind the scenes at Canal+
Antoine de Caunes began by giving his definition of “the Canal+ spirit” by adding some nuances. “I am wary of it because the spirit, by its essence, is elusive, but it is perhaps what was born at the moment of the enchanted parenthesis of the first Nowhere elsethat is to say all these attempts to make entertainment differently. And afterwards, it is the cement that can be between us all, because there are real links between us: Alain Chabat, José Garcia, Édouard Baer… I have the impression that we belong to the same family“, he detailed.
The journalist then spoke behind the scenes of Canal+ and wanted to make an important clarification. “Contrary to popular belief, bowls of cocaine were not lying around in the corridors”he began by telling our colleagues. And to add: “It was extremely wise and studious because we had to deliver hours of daily airtime and it represented real painstaking work. There was rigor but we had fun, there was a general schoolboy spirit”. An example? “On the air with José Garcia and Philippe Gildas – a man I loved deeply – two times out of three we were overcome with fits of laughter which prevented us from even returning to the air,” he remembered.
The latter concluded that even 40 years later, he is in no way affected by the nostalgia of the beginnings. “It's a word that is not part of my vocabulary. It embarrasses me even when I am taken back to the past, because I am interested in what will happen today and tomorrow. I sometimes feel small fits melancholy when thinking back to very happy days, but I am wary of nostalgia like the plague because it's a rather sticky thing that pulls you back”concluded the actor.
