This Thursday, November 21, Frédéric Lopez was the guest of Anne-Élisabeth Lemoine in C to you on France 5. The host revealed behind the scenes of the very latest issue that he presents Meet in unknown land. A trip he made to Kenya with Kendji Girac last March.
Frédéric Lopez is in the news. This Sunday, November 24, he presents the 50th broadcast ofA Sunday in the countryside on France 2. On this occasion, he received Dany Boon, Virginie Grimaldi and Kendji Girac who agreed to speak for the first time about the tragedy that affected him last April. The host also released a cookbook called The cuisine of A Sunday in the Country in which he collected the recipes he was able to make in his flagship program. To talk about it, he chose the set of C to you of which he was the guest this Thursday, November 21. The opportunity for him to return to the genesis ofA Sunday in the countryside. How did he come up with the idea? “When I went to an unknown land with guests, some showed me their corner. Muriel Robin introduced me to Corsica, Patrick Timsit a corner of Gard. While they were cooking and washing the dishes, I said to myself: 'That's funny, they never said it in an interview'. The concept came from there. I said to myself: 'Let's do a show in the countryside!'
Meet in unknown land : Frédéric Lopez reveals behind the scenes of his last show filmed with Kendji Girac
Besides that, Frédéric Lopez is not done with Meet in unknown land. While he chose Laury Thilleman to take over the helm of the show after the departure of Raphaël from Casabianca, he will present a last number that he shot with Kendji Girac in Kenya last March, a month before the drama which took place. is played in his caravan. “It was an incredible experience! I hadn't left for six years. It's a bit like cycling, you find reflexes. Except that years have passed. It was 45 degrees in the shade, I don't even know how much it was in the sun. We were in a stony desert, it is a very hostile region. Half the team passed out. In the middle of an interview, my friend Olivier from sound, he's going to hate me, we saw him pass out“, he remembered.
“It's the experience of a lifetime“
And to continue: “Kendji is a guy who never complains, finally there was something that scared him very much, it was his anxiety, he fell into it. He's someone who is very gentle with the people who received us and what's more, they don't know that he's a star, they adopted him and he was an extraordinary traveling companion“. This new issue will be broadcast next spring. But will it really be Frédéric Lopez's last shoot? “When I left with Thomas Pesquet, for me it was the last of my life. I arrived, the team told me it’s the 20th anniversary. I thought it was a joke (…) I didn't have to be asked, it's the experience of a lifetime“, he commented.
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