“The laughter of a room is like a guili to the heart”

Alison Wheeler pours herself a coffee, but doesn't need it to be energized. As soon as the telephone conversation begins, she takes the hand, offers to reverse the roles, to conduct the interview. Then, neither quickly nor twice, she jumps to another idea: “What if I played the show for you on the phone?” » His years of TV and radio columns, Daily has The Original Soundtrackhave visibly left traces. She has a sharp retort and all-terrain humor.

Facetious and intrepid, she gives the impression of being afraid of nothing. It’s all in the word “impression,” she assures. Because going on stage alone, for the very first time, made him nervous. « Some evenings I can't control my heart rate at all. Seeing all those owl eyes in the dark has its effect. »

His mother, the best remedy for a big head

She tempers: “It's like a roller coaster: you scream before, but afterwards you're glad you did it. It's a pleasant fear, not the kind that slams you into the ground. We don't save lives, we don't take them away, it puts things into perspective! » Especially after discovering the sensations that the scene provides: “The laughter of a room is like guili to the heart”she imagines.

But the Franco-Irish woman, daughter of a physiotherapist and an English teacher, is cautious: “These sensations are very addictive and dangerous. This is why some artists go crazy. » To keep your feet on the ground, nothing like it “just a call to his mother, so that she can tell you: “How bad did you look in that interview…” »

Something to remind him “the life of rakes that is the life of an artist”far from the image she had when she was waiting to be “ landmark “. What, too, makes one wonder about the pressure she imposed on herself by titling her show One night's promise. “With this promise thing, I have the impression that some people think that I am going to do some kind of burlesque showshe prefers to joke. Whereas I thought of it as a “date”, an evening of meeting between a young woman and her audience. We have a good time, we laugh, but we don't necessarily remember it the next day. This is my upset artichoke heart side. »

A “One-night Promise” that resembles it

However, his show is not a one-off affair. Of studio Bagel where she started, to this one-on-one, through her role as Miss Weather on Canal+

and her parodies of teleshopping or advertisements, Alison Wheeler has imposed her stamp. His overflowing imagination, his sense of the absurd, his crossed-out digressions, his sung parentheses, his spoken words and his curly character who, without touching them, puts a number of feminist subjects on the table. on One night promise is a concentrate of all that: she mocks her own contradictions and those of her contemporaries, pushes the song and returns to her first loves by broadcasting, as a“commas”

five video sketches. The opportunity to appreciate her talents as an actress, which are already illustrated in the series Poor thing I don't film My mother's life

and thanks to which she will soon be starring in two films. A comedy about the Avignon Festival, alongside Baptiste Lecaplain, and a first feature film on “mermaiding”, the art of swimming like a mermaid, alongside Aloïse Sauvage.

Until then, she is expected at the Olympia from January 7 to 11 and continues her tour across France, notably passing through Tours three times. Never the last to launch a wacky idea (and make us laugh), she challenged us to shout “Frédéric Lopez”, named after the France Télévisions host, when he entered the stage… A word to the wise!

Tours (Indre-et-Loire) will host the show “La Promesse d’un soir” by Alison Wheeler three times: November 5 and 6 at the Grand Théâtre and March 29, 2025 at the convention center.