Yannick Noah is 64 years old, but he never seems to want to slow down. After having had considerable success in his Tennis career, he became a recognized singer. These two lives would have fulfilled anyone, but not Yannick Noah. In addition to this appetite for a life at 1000 miles an hour since its beginnings, it has also become dad for the sixth time barely a month ago.
The native of Sedan, in the Ardennes, therefore made the choice to embark on a new career. He thus decided to play comedy whether for cinema or television. After announcing his role in It's the world turned upside down! Yannick Noah will start a new shoot. He will opposite Florent Peyre for a TV film broadcast on France 2 Death on clay.
Michael Youn's tribute to Yannick Noah
Yannick Noah is a man of undeniable charisma. He has been able throughout his long career to adapt to many environments. Each time he was able to do well. In this new acting career, there is no reason why this should not be the case. He has also begun to impress certain personalities in the field, and not the least important ones. Indeed, Michael Youn to whom he gave the reply in It's the world turned upside down! showed himself totally dithyrambic.
“We spent a lot of time together. Yannick is extremely rich… Obviously, he is an exceptional leader of men : he led the French Tennis team to victory in the Davis Cup, he helped Paris Saint Germain win a European Cup. No offense to the Marseillais: the Parisians once won a European Cup, which certainly no longer exists, but at the time it existed.
The former tennis player inspires the whole village
In this next TV film project, he will play a former tennis champion. Everything except a composition role for him. He will respond to Florent Peyre who will be the investigator in charge of solve a murder which took place on the sidelines of a tennis tournament. It is therefore a safe bet that the people who cross paths with the former champion will be marked by his personality as Michael Youn was on the set of Nicolas Vannier's film.
“We were filming in Vézelay and I don't know how many souls there are, and it must be something like 200 or 300, but we were really with the local people, we went to their café where we were very well received and we were all together. And when Yannick starts to sing, when he starts to create ambiance, you have 300 people in unison who follow him.
