If on the next album Julien Dorébaptized Impostor (for pre-order from July 17), includes a resumption of Words, words in duet with Sharon Stoneit’s not just a new glamorous spotlight from the singer who had already invited another Hollywood star, Pamela Anderson, to make an appearance in the video for the song Lake… No, he simply knows the actress who became a global superstar with the film Basic Instinct.
“I was invited to the Cannes Film Festival after the release of my first album in 2008 (Ersatz)“, he says when we meet him on the set of season 2 of the series Panda for TF1.My first single, Les Limites, had done quite well but the second one didn’t work well. So I found myself in Cannes singing piano/voice in the middle of a dinner, and nobody was making fun of my presence. A very bad experience. And then I felt that there was a crowd movement. Sharon Stone arrived. She sat right next to me, what, barely a meter away, and looked at me and listened to me. And when Sharon Stone looks at you and listens to you, everybody looks at you and listens to you.“, he recalls. This moment will then create a bond between the two artists, which will ultimately lead them to collaborate musically.
“What if I wrote to Sharon Stone on Instagram?”
“Afterwards, we must have exchanged two sentences, barely, and we took a photo. The next day, I was invited to “Le Grand Journal” on Canal +. Then, from time to time, maybe three times in fifteen years, we sent each other messages via Instagram. That’s all. When I had the idea of doing this cover of “Paroles, Paroles” where a woman would cover Alain Delon’s text and I would sing Dalida’s part, in the studio, we started to talk about names. And I said to my friend, Martin, with whom I made this record: ‘Hey, man, if I wrote on Insta to Sharon Stone’. And that’s how it happened. I wrote her a message. She replied: ‘All in!’. Then, we were lucky enough for her to come and participate in a painting exhibition in Berlin. We took a plane and recorded her voice there. It was magical.“, he says.
