Revealed in the mid-1990s, the knights of the gall, from Toulouse, had a complicated start when they arrived in Paris. On Anne Roumanoff's Tuesday, they return to this period, where they were on display in the "third schedule of Point Virgule".
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"We said 'no' to everything". Asked by Anne Roumanoff about their connection with "reality of people", the two actors believe that it is their authenticity that pays. "We have never rigged anything since our beginnings," they plead. "When we started in Paris, we were at the third time of the Point Virgule, at 23:15," confide the comedians, who were facing almost empty rooms and lodged in Pigalle in an unheated apartment.
Éric Carrière and Francis Ginibre met a lot of people from the entertainment industry at the time, and everyone was going to his little advice. "We arrived with our accent, our habits, our way of doing things, (...) and the people of the trade told us to change our name, to remove our accent, not to swear", remember the Knights of the gall. "We said 'no' to everything, because we did this job to do what we wanted," they explain.
"The problem of cinema is that we have to dilute". In 2014, the Knights of Fiel made a foray into the cinema with Family Meal . A first in the seventh art they have not kept a very good memory. "The problem of cinema is that it must be diluted," said the duo, who ended up facing "ten people who are professionals" and explains what to do.
Éric Carrière and Francis Ginibre did not feel like making their film. "We were strolled," they say today. Their second feature film, Les Municipaux, these heroes went much better, bringing together 600,000 spectators in theaters. Their third feature film, Les Municipaux, is too much! , will come out at the end of the year.