All came from the theater but went through TV series (With family, Domestic scenes, Such a great sun), Luc Sonzogni, Emmanuel Donzella, Fred Bianconi and Frédéric Bouraly and Oliver Mag are on stage for “Les Darons osent tout”. A show that takes up the codes of music hall, oscillating between theater, sketches and songs.
When you talk about Let’s dare everything with Luc Sonzogni, Emmanuel Donzella, Fred Bianconi and Frédéric Bouraly, you say above all that it is a show with friends of 30 years. Is it more than a detail?
This is the basis. We are friends. We met on stage 30 years ago. Lately, everyone, with our respective careers on TV or whatever, we haven’t seen each other much. We said to ourselves, we’re going to write a show to see each other rather than talking with friends to tell each other’s lives. The idea was to do a show together and then, like that, we’ll have a meal afterwards. We combined business with pleasure.
The show was born after Frédéric Bourali’s well-watered wedding?
That’s a bit of a legend. It’s a show that mainly originated with Luc Sonzogni, who is the creator of our group. He had a scooter accident and he said to himself that life doesn’t mean much and I absolutely have to contact my friends again and we decide to work together again like we did years ago . So we started thinking about this show well in advance. It turns out that there was the marriage of one of the Darons, Frédéric Bourali, the following year. It gave us the opportunity to refine a few sketches, a bit of improvisation, and to realize that there was a real appetite for us to get back together and do the stupid things again.
The Darons dare everythingare they sketches and songs?
The common thread is our friendship. We play our own roles through different events, like mini-plays, and then these events are interspersed with sketches or songs more or less short, more or less absurd, on social facts, on relationships that we face, children, family, women, etc., We are darons. This is not a play. It’s a spectacle.
Is five on stage the right number?
We do sketches at 5, at 3, at 2, at 1. It goes extremely quickly. It goes from one universe to another. The idea was that people would be surprised all the time, that they would never know where the joke or the humor would come from. It could be a song. It’s going to be a sketch. It will be visual or rather something moving. Everyone sings pretty well, and so there are moments with Corsican singers. There is Frédéric Bouraly who sings Brel, With time, Amsterdam. Me, I’m a formidable Italian singer who could be a very great pizzeria singer. This is really what we called the music hall before. That no longer means anything to young people. It’s really an old-fashioned expression but that’s what all the artists of the 1930s or 1940s did. They combined sketches and songs with an orchestra. We don’t have one yet, but it’s not certain that one day we won’t also have our little Big Band behind us, to accompany us in our various antics.
You all come from the theater, but also from the world of series. You are With Familybut your colleagues play in Such a big sun or even Domestic scenes. Does the show take you out of this TV world?
It has nothing to do with what we do. The only pleasure people have is seeing us, who play our very popular characters on TV, in real life. But we offer them some really crazy things. Besides, they are generally extremely surprised. They died laughing. Already on TV, it’s not us who write our texts and then there are still plenty of codes. These are very popular shows that are watched by the whole family. There, we allow ourselves things that are a little more daring.
You are a rugby coach in En Famille. It fits you well ?
I love that. It was a revelation. I came in as a bit of a “guest” from time to time, and then, little by little, it went extremely well with Jeanne Savary who plays the main actress. Eventually, I became her husband, her lover, her favorite character in the series. Now I’m a lead actor with her. It’s a lot of luck. It’s been the 14th year.
