For Marie Eykel, the interpreter of Passe-Partout in the famous youth show of the same title, Kim Yaroshevskaya was more than a youth idol. She was a friend, a mentor and a great source of inspiration.
“Kim, my Fanfreluche, opened so many doors in my head when I was little,” Marie Eykel confided on QUB on Monday., the day after the announcement of the departure of the author and host, who died on Sunday at the age of 101.
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“The fact of being able to enter into a story and decide that you have the power to change the course of that story has been a guide in my life since I was 4 years old. I don’t accept things as they are if I can do anything to change them. And that’s Kim’s philosophy.”
Marie Eykel also paid tribute to Kim Yaroshevskaya, her playing partner, who slipped into the role of Grandmother in the show. Pass-Partout, which brought joy to children on Quebec television from 1977.
“The Kim I worked with was a naughty girl. Beneath her soft and tender exterior, she was also a woman of great rigor and strength. She told me: you know Marie, when you are not satisfied with a scene and you would like us to reshoot it, make a mistake, otherwise the director will keep it and move on to something else. .”
“What will we remember about Kim Yaroshevskaya?” the host Isabelle Maréchal asked him in conclusion.
“The power of imagination and creation in its pure state,” replied Marie Eykel. [Elle a démontré] that with everything that comes to hand, we can become creative and that imagination can transport us and take us through many trials in the end.”
