This Tuesday, December 3 Maxime Chattam was invited to the set of Buzz TV in order to discuss his career as a writer and in particular his latest novel entitled « Prime Time », whose plot follows the hostage taking live “ from the presenter of the 8 p.m. news on the first national channel “. This is the first time that the king of thrillers has allowed himself to evoke the world of television in one of his novels and for good reason!
“I didn't want anyone to judge my wife who works on TV.”
« I've wanted to talk about the world of TV for a long time and I forbade myself from doing so for family reasons. I didn't want anyone to judge my wife, who works on TV, through my own words.” explains it husband of Faustine Bollaert, the host of It begins today and adds “ It took a while for me to calm down with that question. »
“Faustine has always been my first support”
The novelist specifies that Faustine never asked him anything in this sense “ on the contrary, she has always been my first support for all my decisions in my books. It's just that at one point there was also a question of the spirit of the times. I was at a point in my life where I wanted to talk about this subject. And the way I wanted to approach it corresponded to what I felt as a novelist and observer of society, I have impressions, feelings, things that cross my mind in what we experience from the company and what it does » he concluded.
Faustine Bollaert shocked by certain novels by Maxime Chattam
Maxime Chattam has been married to host Faustine Bollaert since 2012. They are the happy parents of two children, Abbie born in 2013 and Peter in 2015. In 2022, the host mentioned her husband's novels… some of which could disconcert her. “From time to time I am a little decomposed and I ask him the question again: “But how can you write that?” she asked herself. And added: “I sometimes find it hard to imagine that it is the adorable, tender man I know who could write such horrors. Above all, how he can come down from his desk after writing this, and find us. There are times there is a little culture shock” she concluded at the microphone of RTL.
