“Is this a joke or is it for real? » In the RTL news studio, on the first floor of the radio building in Neuilly-sur-Seine (Hauts-de-Seine), André Dussollier, 79, asks for details on what we are about to ask him. A few photos, then videos, a little sound, too… Naturally voluntary, he just wants to know what is expected of him, to adapt what he gives and to whom. “These are summaries, launches for social networks,” explains Isabelle Choquet, editor-in-chief of “Grand Récit”, the actor’s daily meeting since the start of the school year.
Every evening of the week, at 8 p.m., he conveys history. An exercise that the actor likes and to which he lends himself with obvious relish. This Wednesday morning, he will start a new day of recording but, this time, in “the cabin”, located one floor above, a much more cramped space, barely 4 m2, a fishbowl where only four of us can fit.