Doria Tillier did not expect to provoke such a reaction during her appearance last October in Daily (TMC) to present Children are kings, its latest Disney+ series adapted from a novel by Delphine de Vigan.
The frankness of Doria Tillier against Yann Barthès in Quotidien
Invited on October 10 to discuss this thriller in which she plays opposite Géraldine Nakache, Doria Tillier surprised Yann Barthès with some very cash confidences. “I thought I would prepare for the role by watching videos of parent influencers and actually, not at all. After four videos, I found it so empty, sorry. I’m not going to quote the videos but it wasn’t even inspiring. So I prepared very basically by learning my text”she said, a little embarrassed, adding that it was the “the only role she did without really understanding it“. “How do we do it?“, replied Yann Barthès in surprise. Visibly uncomfortable, Doria Tillier tried to get out of it by adding, interspersed with nervous laughter: “We have to say a word, finally say a sentence, a catchphrase (…) Sometimes I found that it didn’t make sense. (…) It’s really… I didn’t understand (…) I’m not going to make this thing worse. I said once that I didn’t understand and it’s true but hey… There are things that I understood anyway!
Doria Tillier shocked by the reactions to her interview in Quotidien (TMC)
Doria Tillier’s many hesitations and nervous laughter led many viewers to describe this sequence as “malaise”. And they are not the only ones since several media also relayed this very embarrassing moment. Reactions which disconcerted the main interested party, as she admits in the last issue of Paris Match. “If we watch the show, I can understand that we feel a certain uneasiness. But to go from there to making several articles titled like this… It’s absolutely not representative!”she protests before revealing that she wants to make a radical decision since this interview. “I’m not going to go on TV anymore. I had to go back to Daily the following week, I declined. They’re not the ones I want to yell at, but I wanted to protect myself.”. Talking about his first short film The Diagonal of Fools in which she stages a “journalist who is a horrible person“, Doria Tillier slips while tackling the media: “I had this thing of saying to myself: “These journalists are mentally ill. They’re crazy and it’s serious.”
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